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Cornopean.

Technical description: Brass with german silver ferrules, stays, mouthpiece and crook receiver sheaths, finger ring, valve balusters and screws. Mother-of-pearl or abalone valve touchpieces. Large gusset in bell, French bell rim. Three bows in 3rd valve tuning-slide to allow removal without colliding with bell. Main tuning-slide with moving proximal outer and distal inner; valve tuning-slides with moving inners. Clapper key. With shanks for B? and A, crooks for A?, G, F and E, coupler for E?.; Nominal pitch: B? etc.; Type or system: Clapper key.; ; ; ; Usable pitch: Probably built for use at circa A?=|435|Hz.;

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  • Inscriptions:Stamped on plates on shanks "SB", "LA", on crooks "SOL", "FA", "MI", on coupler "MIB".
  • Hornbostel-Sachs category:423.232.11
  • Repository:Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
  • Measurements:Overall size: from plane of bell to bow proximal 270; bell 130.; Sounding length: minimum 1392 (in|B?).; Bore: B? shank at mouthpiece receiver end (minimum bore) 9.35; main tuning-slide from 281mm to 496mm from mouthpiece receiver (with B? shank), m.t.s. bore 11.3; valve cluster from 658mm to 882mm from mouthpiece receiver (with B? shank), v.t.s. bore (3,2,1) 11.5; at c|278mm from bell end, 16.2; at 24.5mm from bell end, 73.B|=|0.68 (in|B?), B|=|0.70 (in|G).Bell cutoff |1100|Hz.Dia of mouthpiece receiver: m.r.t. 9.35 - 9.5 (i.e., reverse taper).