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Contralto saxhorn.
Technical description: Brass, bell-up form; Mainz bell rim. No main tuning-slide; no water-key; with fitting for music-card holder.; Nominal pitch: 4½-ft B?.; Type or system: Bell-up wrap.; ; ; ; Usable pitch: Probably altered for use at circa A?=|452.4|Hz.;
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Probably 2nd half of 19th century - Maker:
by Emile Mennesson. - Collection:
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland - Inventory number:
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Reims. - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:423.231.11 Valve bugles with narrow bore, with short air column (less than 2 m)
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- Inscriptions:Inscribed on bell "EMILE MENNESSON / RUE DES / TAPISSIERS. 10 / REIMS".
- Hornbostel-Sachs category:423.231.11 Valve bugles 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 410; bell 154.; Sounding length: minimum 1296.; Bore: mouthpipe at c|55mm from mouthpiece receiver (minimum bore) 7.65; valve cluster from 114mm to 189mm from mouthpiece receiver, v.t.s. bore (1,2,3) 11.05; at 648mm from bell end, c|15.9; at c|406mm from bell end, 22.5; at 18.5mm from bell end, 94.B|=|0.42.Bell cutoff |1100|Hz.Dia of mouthpiece receiver: m.r.t. 9.75 - 8.8.