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Technical description: Silver-plated brass; French bell rim. Reverse S-shaped leadpipe with water-key on first bow, main tuning-slide in second bow, and auxiliary tuning-slide and water-key on third bow. No fitting for music-card holder.; Nominal pitch: B? etc.; ; ; ; ; ;

  • Date:
    Probably 1862 or soon after
  • Maker:
    Henry Distin & Co [Corporation]
  • Collection:
    Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
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  • Place of production:
    London.
  • Hornbostel-Sachs classification:423.232.11
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  • Inscriptions:Stamped on bell "No.|4741 / HENRY DISTIN & CO. / MAKERS / 9|&|10 GRT.|NEWPORT|ST. / LEICESTER SQUARE / LONDON / CLS.|1"; on back of bell with trademark of upper-case "D" with "DISTIN" vertically in stem and "LONDON" vertically in bow.
  • Hornbostel-Sachs category:423.232.11
  • Repository:Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
  • Measurements:Overall size: from plane of bell to 1st valve tuning-slide 299; bell 124.5.; Sounding length: ; Bore: m.t.s. from 200mm to 420mm from shank/crook receiver, tuning-slide bores c|10.8 - 11.3; auxiliary m.t.s. from 420mm to 590mm from shank/crook receiver, tuning-slide bore 11.3; valve cluster from 625mm to 730mm from shank/crook receiver, v.t.s. bore (3,2,1) 11.7; at c|300mm from bell end, 16.0; at 21mm from bell end, 68.Bell cutoff |1200|Hz.