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Technical description: Brass; final 110mm of bell flare with gusset joined by circumferential tabbed seam; garland; both tuning slide legs have fixed outer and moving inner. tubular stays to tuning-slide and to to bell. With C alto shank; Bb alto crook; A coupler; E crook; 2 Bb basso couplers.; Type or system: Webb-Halstead French model.
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2007 - Maker:
John Webb. - Collection:
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland - Inventory number:
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London. - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:423.121.22-4
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- Inscriptions:Stamped on applied plate on garland "WEBB / HALSTEAD / LONDON"; stamped on bell stay "649.07"; stamped on tuning-slide stay "1"; on shank "C"; on german silver plates on crooks "B", "E"; on german silver plates on couplers "A", "B", "B".
- Hornbostel-Sachs category:423.121.22-4
- Repository:Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
- Measurements:Overall size: from plane of bell to bow proximal 435; corpus diameter 425; bell 281.; Sounding length: minimum 2462 (with C|alto shank).; Bore: C|alto|shank at mouthpiece receiver end (minimum bore) 8.6; main tuning-slide from 439mm to 937mm from crook receiver (with C|alto shank), m.t.s. bore 11.15; at 1231mm from bell end, c|12.0.; at c|691mm from bell end, 17.0.; at 77mm from bell end, 106.5.B|=|0.57 (in|C|alto).Bell cutoff |500|Hz.Dia of mouthpiece receiver: m.r.t. 8.6 - 8.65 (C|shank, reverse taper); 8.1 - 7.65 (B? crook, over 10mm); 8.15 - 7.8 (E crook, over 10mm).