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Valveless helicon. Nominal pitch: 26-ftE♭.
Technical description: nickel-plated brass; five coils; adjustable mouthpipe in three sections with three ligature turnscrews: the mouthpiece receiver slides to move the mouthpiece closer to the player, the intermediate section adjusts the height, and the third section adjusts the direction. With fitting for music card holder.
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1926 - Maker:
Couesnon [Corporation] - Collection:
University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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Paris/France - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:423.121.22 End-blown labrosones with curved or folded tubes, with mouthpiece
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:423.121.22 End-blown labrosones with curved or folded tubes, with mouthpiece
- Repository:University of Edinburgh
- Measurements:958; bell 290; corpus diameter c600.
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/15211