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Piccolo trumpet.
Technical description: Gold-plated brass; detachable straight bell with French rim. With both tuning shank and tuning-bell with ligature screw restraints on shank receiver and on bell. The 4th valve slightly offset. Tuning-slides on 1st, 3rd and 4th valves. With finger-hooks for L1, R0 and R4 (when not operating 4th valve).; Nominal pitch: C.; Type or system: 4 valves.; ; ; ; Usable pitch: Probably built for use at A?=|440|Hz.;
- Date:
4th quarter 20th century - Maker:
Schilke. - Collection:
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland - Inventory number:
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Chicago. - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:423.233.1 Valve trumpets with short air column (less than 2 m)
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- Inscriptions:Engraved on 2nd valve casing in rectangle "SCHILKE / CHICAGO / U.S.A." and below stamped laterally "10577"; stamped on tuning-shank receiver "C5.4".
- Hornbostel-Sachs category:423.233.1 Valve trumpets with short air column (less than 2 m)
- Repository:Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
- Measurements:Overall size: from plane of bell to mouthpiece receiver 508 (tuning-slides fully closed); bell 101.; Sounding length: minimum 527.; Bore: mouthpipe at c|30mm from mouthpiece receiver (minimum bore) 8.5; valve cluster from 105mm to 220mm from mouthpiece receiver, v.t.s. bore (1,2,3,4) 11.45; main tuning-slide from 233mm to 271mm from mouthpiece receiver, m.t.s bore 11.75; at c|146mm from bell end, 16.6; at 11mm from bell end, 47.B|=|0.52.Bell cutoff |2400|Hz.Dia of mouthpiece receiver: m.r.t. 9.9 - 9.0.