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Cor anglais
Cor anglais, english horn. African blackwood (grenadilla) with nickel silver-plated keys and ferrules. Keys have fish skin and cork pads. Conservatiore system fingering with automatic octaves and two ring keys with ebonite bushes. Three joints. Crook missing. Cork lapped tenons. Upper and lower joints have the serial number 346835 stamped on the reverse. Bell is stamped: Ligmatone/MADE IN/CZECHOSLAVAKIA; with lion emblem directly above.
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1900-1950 - Maker:
Donatone - Collection:
Horniman Museum and Gardens - Inventory number:
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Czechoslovakia - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:422.112 (Single) oboes with conical bore
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- Materials:steel, cork, fish skin, nickel silver-plating, copper alloy, granadilla
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:422.112 (Single) oboes with conical bore
- Repository:Horniman Museum and Gardens
- Measurements:overall: 860 x 72 x 72 mm