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Cor anglais

Cor anglais, english horn. African blackwood (grenadilla) with silver-plated keywork and ferrules. Fourteen keys, pillar mounted with circular flat flaps and cork and fish skin pads. Brille key and one double tone hole. Sling hook and thumb rest as single component on lower joint. Crook missing. Upper joint is curved. Bulbous bell. Each joint stamped: TRIEBERT/A. PARIS; a castle emblem appears above the lower joint and bell inscriptions.

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  • Materials:fish skin, felt, cork, steel, silver-plating, copper alloy, grenadilla
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  • Hornbostel-Sachs category:422.112 (Single) oboes with conical bore
  • Repository:Horniman Museum and Gardens
  • Measurements:overall: 780 x 60 x 60 mm