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Technical description: Silver-plated brass, French bell rim. With B? shank. Valve casings with balusters.With double water-key with single touchpiece; fitting for music-card holder; no finger-hook or ring. The main tuning-slide has a quick-change rotary valve for|A.; Nominal pitch: B?|.|A.; ; ; ; ; ;
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1900-04 - Maker:
Antoine Courtois [Corporation] - Collection:
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland - Inventory number:
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Paris. - 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 with circle containing "MÉDAILLE / DE / 1RE CLASSE / EXPOSITION / UNIVERSELLE / 1855" / Médaille / LONDRES 1862 / Exposition Universelle / PARIS 1867 / Medaille d'honneur / EN ARGENT / ANTOINE COURTOIS / Breveté / FACTEUR DU CONSERVATOIRE NATIONAL / 88. rue des Marais St. Martin / Paris / 1ER. PRIX / GRANDE MÉDAILLE D'OR / EXPOSITION DE MOSCOU 1872 / MEDAILLE D'OR PARIS / 1878 & 1889 / MEDAILLE D'OR PARIS 1900 / J.R.|LAFLEUR &|SON / 147.|Wardour St.. W. / London"; inscribed on valve casings and spring guides "4", "5", "6"; scratched on spring guides above those numbers "VII", "VIII", "VIIII"; scratched on 2nd and 3rd top cap interiors "VIII", "VIIII"; inscribed on quick-change valve casing "COURTOIS" and "747".
- 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 314; bell 121.; Sounding length: ; Bore: B? shank at c|30mm from mouthpiece receiver (minimum bore) 8.35; main tuning-slide from 320mm to 545mm from mouthpiece receiver (with shank), m.t.s. bore 11.15; valve cluster from 720mm to 815mm from mouthpiece receiver (with shank), v.t.s. bore (1,2,3,2,1) 11.3.Dia of mouthpiece receiver: m.r.t. 9.8 - 8.45 (B? shank).