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Technical description: Silver-plated brass. Windway runs shank/crook receiver - main tuning-slide - 3 - 2 - 1 - bell. No water-key. With detachable fixing for music-card holder.; Nominal pitch: B? etc.; Type or system: Helical valves.; ; ; ; ;
- Date:
1866 or soon after - Maker:
David. - Collection:
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland - Inventory number:
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Paris. - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:423.232.11
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- Inscriptions:Stamped on bell "David / Breveté" / monogram "MD" / à Paris"; stamped on valve casings and upper sections of pistons "1", "2", "3".
- Hornbostel-Sachs category:423.232.11
- Repository:Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
- Measurements:Overall size: from plane of bell to bow proximal 325; bell 107.; Sounding length: ; Bore: main tuning-slide, m.t.s. bore 11.5; valve cluster, v.t.s. bore (3,2,1) 11.5; at 13mm from bell end, 72.Bell cutoff |1300|Hz.