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Valve trumpet. Nominal pitch: F.

Technical description: Brass with plain garland; fixed valve loops, no valve tuning-slides; main tuning-slide possibly shortest of several original alternatives for crooking in 'Inventionshorn' manner. Valve type: 2 Stölzel valves (top sprung); alignment of each by a guide pin screwed right through the casing, the pin also locating the lower ends of spring. Repair History: Mouthpipe repaired, original minimum bore c11.8mm.

  • Date:
    Circa 1830
  • Maker:
    Metzler
  • Collection:
    University of Edinburgh
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  • Place of production:
    London/England
  • Hornbostel-Sachs classification:423.233.1
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  • Hornbostel-Sachs category:423.233.1
  • Repository:University of Edinburgh
  • Measurements:393; bell 131.