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Technical description: Silver-plated brass; French bell rim. Main tuning-slide as shunt with screwed rod and nut to limit travel, maximum extension 52 (adding up to 104 to sounding length). Double water-key with single touchpiece. No fitting for music-card holder.; Nominal pitch: B?|-|A, etc.; ; ; ; ; ;
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1st half of the 20th century - Maker:
Brown & Sons [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 "IMPROVED VALVES / W BROWN & SONS / Makers / 2 TRACEY STREET / KENNINGTON ROAD / LONDON"; on valve casings "1", "2", "3". Stamped on mouthpiece receiver of shank for A on one side "KEAT" and on the other "LONDON".
- 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 318; bell 131.; Sounding length: ; Bore: main tuning-slide from 240mm to 455mm from shank/crook receiver, m.t.s. bores 11.2 - 11.5; valve cluster from 650mm to 740mm from shank/crook receiver, v.t.s. bore (3,2,1) 11.6.