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Bass natural trumpet.
Technical description: Brass, four coils with five ferrule-covered joints; fixed mouthpipe; tuning-slide in first proximal bow. With fitting for music-card holder usable when playing with the plane of the coils approxiamtely horizontal. With three rings for cording or banner.; Nominal pitch: 13-ft E?.; ; ; ; ; Usable pitch: Probably built for use at A?=|435|Hz.;
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1909 - Maker:
Couesnon [Corporation] - Collection:
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland - Inventory number:
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Paris. - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:423.121.22 End-blown labrosones with curved or folded tubes, with mouthpiece
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- Inscriptions:Stamped on bell with "EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE DE PARIS" in banner with "1900" in circle below / "HORS CONCOURS / MEMBRE DE JURY" / monogram OF "C" and reversed "C" / "COUESNON & CIE. / 94 RUE D'ANGOULĂME / PARIS" / grenade containing "9" / "Troupel".
- Hornbostel-Sachs category:423.121.22 End-blown labrosones with curved or folded tubes, with mouthpiece
- Repository:Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
- Measurements:Overall size: from plane of bell to bow proximal 502; bell 188.; Sounding length: minimum 4166.; Bore: mouthpipe at c|40mm from mouthpiece receiver (minimum bore) 11.25; main tuning-slide from 632mm to 1145mm from mouthpiece receiver, m.t.s. bores 12.9 - 12.95; at 2083mm from bell end, c|13.85; at c|684mm from bell end, 19.6.B|=|0.69.Dia of mouthpiece receiver: m.r.t. 12.1 - 11.7.