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Bass trombone.

Technical description: Silver-plated brass; French bell rim; stockings on inner slides. With water-key.; Nominal pitch: G.; ; ; ; ; ;

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  • Inscriptions:Stamped on bell "EXCELSIOR / CLASS / HAWKES & SON / 28 / Leicester Square / LONDON"; and at the back of the bell, near rim "5479".
  • Hornbostel-Sachs category:423.22 Labrosones with slides
  • Repository:Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
  • Measurements:Overall size: 1298; bell 189.; Sounding length: ; Bore: at c|20mm from mouthpiece receiver (minimum bore), 12.4; descending slide, 12.5; ascending slide, 12.5; m.t.s. proximal bore, 16.15; m.t.s. distal bore, 18.1.Dia of mouthpiece receiver: m.r.t. 12.65 - 12.4.