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Tenor/bass valve trombone. Nominal pitch: C+G.
Technical description: Brass; Long outer main tuning-slide in position similar to that of the main slide of a slide trombone, but short inner slides allow maximum extension only 73mm (adding 146mm to sounding length); ligature clamp at top of outer main tuning-slide and siphon water-valve on bow. The 4th valve (for L1) at an angle to the plane of valves 1, 2 and 3 (for R1, R2, R3).Fitting for music card holder. Valve type: 4 Périnet valves, bottom sprung; alignment by key on pistons.
- Date:
1905 or soon after - Maker:
Besson, F. - Collection:
University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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Paris/France - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:423.233.2
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:423.233.2
- Repository:University of Edinburgh
- Measurements:992; bell 148.
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/15058