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Ballad horn.
Technical description: Silver-plated brass; French bell rim. With C shank and B? crook; the valve tuning-slides have gradations for use of the instrument in B?. No water-key, no fitting for music-card holder.; Nominal pitch: 8-ft|C / 9-ft|B?.; ; ; ; ; Usable pitch: Built for use at A?|=|439|Hz.;
- Date:
1925 - 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 "``SOLBRON'' / (REGISTERED) / CLASS|A" / trumpet-and-banner trademark incorporating "TRADE MARK" and "BOOSEY" "BOOSEY|&|CO.|LTD. / MAKERS. LONDON / 122973 / British Throughout" / ellipse containing "I.P."; on 2nd|valve "2" / trumpet-and-banner trademark incorporating "TRADE MARK" and "BOOSEY" / "96879"; stamped on mouthpiece receiver of crook "B?".
- 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 375; bell 176.; Sounding length: minimum 2438 (in|C), 2734 (in|B?).; Bore: at c|30mm from mouthpiece receiver (minimum bore) 8.4; main tuning-slide from 424mm to 631mm from mouthpiece receiver (with shank), m.t.s. bore 11.65; valve cluster from 631mm to 721mm from mouthpiece receiver (with shank), v.t.s. bore (1,2,3) 11.65; at 1219mm from bell end, c|13.1; at c|728mm from bell end, 18.5; at 18mm from bell end, 117.7.B|=|0.51 (with shank), 0.59 (with crook).Bell cutoff |900|Hz.Dia of mouthpiece receiver: m.r.t. 9.45 - 8.6 (shank), 9.7 - 9.1 (crook).