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Technical description: Brass; final 135mm of bell flare joined by circumferential tabbed seam; no gusset; garland; tuning slide proximal leg has moving outer; distal leg has moving inner. tubular stays to tuning-slide; flat stay to bell.; ; Type or system: Webb-Halstead Bohemian model.; ; ; ; ;

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  • Inscriptions:Stamped on applied plate on garland "WEBB / HALSTEAD / LONDON"; stamped on bell stay "401".
  • Hornbostel-Sachs category:423.121.22-4
  • Repository:Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
  • Measurements:Overall size: from plane of bell to bow proximal 455; corpus diameter 430; bell 291.; Sounding length: ; Bore: main tuning-slide from 320mm to 840mm from crook receiver, m.t.s. bore 11.5.at 62.5mm from bell end, 120.5.Bell cutoff |600|Hz.