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Slide trumpet.

Technical description: Brass with german silver ferrules, garland, ball, mouthpiece receiver sheath, and slide bow guard. The ball appears to be three-part but is actually in two parts with soldered seam at widest circumference. First yard passes through channel in ball; distal bow soldered to side of bell. Slide proximal leg has moving outer; distal leg has moving inner; compression spring slide return with the spring enclosed in a cylinder between the bell and bow stays.; Nominal pitch: F etc.; ; ; ; ; Usable pitch: Probably built for use at circa A?=|452.4|Hz.;

  • Date:
    Circa 1850
  • Maker:
    T. Lloyd.
  • Collection:
    Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
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  • Place of production:
    Handsworth, Birminghaam.
  • Hornbostel-Sachs classification:423.22
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  • Inscriptions:Engraved on bell "T.|LLOYD / Maker / HANDSWORTH".
  • Hornbostel-Sachs category:423.22
  • Repository:Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
  • Measurements:Overall size: from plane of bell to bow proximal 588; bell 112.; Sounding length: ; Bore: Sounding length: instrument without shanks or crooks, minimum (in|F) 1742; at 38mm from mouthpiece/shank/crook receiver (minimum bore), 11.45; at 871mm from mouthpiece/shank/crook receiver, c|11.45; slide section at from 893mm to 1414mm from mouthpiece receiver, inner slides bore 11.45; at c|231mm from bell end, 16.2; at 11mm from bell end, 71.B|=|0.82 (in|F).Bell cutoff |1600|Hz.Dia of mouthpiece receiver: taper on instrument body to receive crooks, bits or mouthpiece 12.7 - 11.9.