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Ballad horn.
Technical description: Brass; bell-down wrap; windway runs shank/crook receiver - main tuning-slide - 1 - 2 - 3 - bell. Second valve tuning-slide directed outwards. With crook for B?. No water-key.; Nominal pitch: C / B?.; ; ; ; ; ;
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1869 - Maker:
Henry Distin & Co [Corporation] - Collection:
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland - Inventory number:
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London. - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:423.232.12 Valve horns with narrow bore, with long air column (more than 2 m)
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- Inscriptions:Stamped on bell with trumpet-and-banner trademark incorporating "DISTIN" / "Patent Light Valve / DISTIN|&|CO. / MAKERS / 9|&|10 GRT.|NEWPORT|ST. / LONDON / 21147"; on 2nd|valve "17" / words forming an ellipse "DISTIN * LONDON *", inside "MAKER" / "11161".
- Hornbostel-Sachs category:423.232.12 Valve horns with narrow bore, with long air column (more than 2 m)
- Repository:Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
- Measurements:Overall size: from plane of bell to valve touchpieces 350; bell 180.; Sounding length: ; Bore: mouthpipe of B? crook at c|40mm from mouthpiece receiver (minimum bore) 9.2; main tuning-slide, m.t.s. bore 11.6; valve cluster, v.t.s. bore (1,2,3) 11.6.Dia of mouthpiece receiver: B? crook m.r.t. 9.85 - 9.4.