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Serpent. Nominal pitch: 8-ft C.
Technical description: Wood with fabric covering, painted black (the last coat of paint obviously applied after some of the fabric had worn away). Brass crook and brass ferrules on crook receiver and bell. Six finger-holes (in two close-spaced groups of three as normal), with protruding ivory bushings, arranged for left hand to grip from above and right hand to grip from below; three keys: two on front (for L1 and R4), in each case controlling a tone-hole above the corresponding group of finger-holes; the third key on back (for R0) controlling a lower tone-hole. Bell very slightly turned forwards. R0:
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Circa 1825 - Maker:
Metzler & Son - Collection:
University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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London/England - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:423.213-71 Labrosones with fingerholes and with keys, with (wider) conical bore
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:423.213-71 Labrosones with fingerholes and with keys, with (wider) conical bore
- Repository:University of Edinburgh
- Measurements:708
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/16943