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Technical description: Brass, with german silver garland, ferrules, outer slides, valve touchpieces, finger-hook for R5. Valves in a pronounced V-formation; windway runs crook receiver - main tuning-slide - 2 - 3 - 1 - bell. With (321a) bit, length 36; (321b) B? shank; (321c) A shank; (321d) A? crook.; Nominal pitch: B? etc.; Type or system: Clapper-key.; ; ; ; Usable pitch: Probably built for use at circa A?=|452.4|Hz.;
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1834-68 - Maker:
Thomas Bull. - Collection:
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland - Inventory number:
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London. - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:423.232.11
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- Inscriptions:Stamped on garland "T.|BULL / MAKER / WINDMILL ST. / FINSBURY SQR.".
- Hornbostel-Sachs category:423.232.11
- Repository:Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
- Measurements:Overall size: from plane of bell to bow proximal 274; bell 116.5.; Sounding length: minima 1292 (in|B?), 1358 (in|A), 1450 (in|A?).; Bore: shank (b) at 34mm from mouthpiece receiver (minimum bore) 11.1; crook (c) at c|30mm from mouthpiece receiver (minimum bore) 11.25; crook (d) at c|36mm from mouthpiece receiver (minimum bore) 10.48; instrument body at c|20mm from shank/crook receiver (local minimum bore), 11.15; main tuning-slide from 252mm to 456mm from mouthpiece receiver (with B? shank), m.t.s. bore 11.6; valve cluster from 616mm to 846mm from mouthpiece receiver (with B? shank), v.t.s. bore (2,3,1) 11.6; at c|303mm from bell end, 16.4; at 13.1mm from bell end, 73.5.B|=|0.74 (with shank for B?); B|=|0.75 (with shank for flat); B|=|0.71 (with crook for A?).Bell cutoff |1400|Hz.Dia of mouthpiece receiver: m.r.t. of B? shank 11.5 - 11.25; A shank 11.5 - 11.3; A? crook 11.4 - 11.24.