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Valved horn. Nominal pitch: F.
Technical description: Unusually large body and bore of rather clumsy (provincial ?) design, with branches angled to bring valve touches close to fingers. Valves with rack and pinion adjustment to tuning-slides. Windway runs: crook receiver - m.t.s. leg - 2 - 1 - m.t.s. leg - bell. Metal construction: yellow brass; joint between bell segment and intermediate segment is butt-joined, apparently with a sleeve inside some 20 long; seamed tubing, with single seamed bell and broad garland, width 40. Tuning-slide has both male sections on slide, female on instrument body. Valve type: Two detachable Stölzel valves. Pistons not accessible. First valve two-semitone, second valve semitone.
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1835-1840 - Maker:
Ellard - Collection:
University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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Dublin/Republic of Ireland - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:423.232.12-4 Valve horns with narrow bore, with long air column (more than 2 m) and with crooks
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:423.232.12-4 Valve horns with narrow bore, with long air column (more than 2 m) and with crooks
- Repository:University of Edinburgh
- Measurements:Corpus diameter 355; bell diameter 315.
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/16645