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Cornet. Nominal pitch: B♭

Technical description: brass, gold-plated brass; secondary tuning slide with alternative slide 27mm longer in each leg; fitting for music card holder, attaching by ligature clamp to tuning slide outer; water-key. Valve type: 3 Périnet valves, top sprung by compression spring outside stem; alignment by key on piston; copper-plated pistons. Repair History: The second bottom valve cap is a replacement.

  • Date:
    1929
  • Maker:
    Brown & Sons [Corporation]
  • Collection:
    University of Edinburgh
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  • Place of production:
    London/England
  • Hornbostel-Sachs classification:423.232.11
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  • Hornbostel-Sachs category:423.232.11
  • Repository:University of Edinburgh
  • Measurements:325; bell 125.