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Cornet.
Technical description: Silver-plated brass. With auxiliary main tuning-slide (`piano slide'). With finger-hook for R4, with water-key; no fitting for music-card holder.; Nominal pitch: B?.; ; ; ; ; ;
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Circa 1919 - Maker:
Besson & Co [Corporation] - Collection:
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland - Inventory number:
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London. - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:423.232.11 Valve horns with narrow bore, with short air column (less than 2 m)
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- Inscriptions:Inscribed on bell "CLASS / A" / "50 MEDALS OF HONOUR" in banner / monogram FB / "BESSON & CO. / ``Prototype'' / 198 EUSTON ROAD / LONDON / ENGLAND"; stamped on 2nd valve casing "BESSON & CO" / five-pointed star / "BREVETE" all within ellipse / "108612".
- Hornbostel-Sachs category:423.232.11 Valve horns with narrow bore, with short air column (less than 2 m)
- Repository:Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
- Measurements:Overall size: from plane of bell to bow proximal 329; bell 118.; Sounding length: ; Bore: auxiliary m.t.s., tuning-slide bores 11.5 - 11.8.