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Ballad horn.
Technical description: Silver-plated brass; bell-down wrap; windway runs shank/crook receiver - main tuning-slide - 1 - 2 - 3 - bell. Second valve tuning-slide directed downwards. With water-key.; Nominal pitch: 8-ft C.; ; ; ; ; ;
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1880 - Maker:
Boosey & 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 "CLASS|A" / trumpet-and-banner trademark incorporating "TRADE MARK" and "DISTIN" / "Patent Light Valve / BOOSEY|&|CO. / MAKERS / 295|REGENT|STT. / LONDON / 24223"; on 2nd|valve "14" / trumpet-and-banner trademark incorporating "TRADE MARK" and "DISTIN" / "24084".
- 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 360; bell 176.; Sounding length: ; Bore: main tuning-slide, m.t.s. bore 11.6; valve cluster, v.t.s. bore (1,2,3) 11.6.