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Trompe de chasse. Nominal pitch: 14-ft D.

Technical description: 6½ coils; yellow brass with german silver mouthpiece receiver ferrule; inside of bell painted black. Metal construction: mouthpipe, 8 intermediate segments and bell, overlapping joints except last (brass ferrule); single gusset in bell, plain garland, width 28. Repair History: There is a neat oval patch 12 × 19 on bell segment c400 from end.

  • Date:
    Mid 19th Century
  • Maker:
    Périnet, Etienne François [Person]
  • Collection:
    University of Edinburgh
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  • Place of production:
    Paris/France
  • Hornbostel-Sachs classification:423.121.22
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  • Hornbostel-Sachs category:423.121.22
  • Repository:University of Edinburgh
  • Measurements:perpendicular to bell 384; corpus diameter 245; bell diameter 258.