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Tuba. Nominal pitch: B♭.
Technical description: Brass. Valve type: 3 Périnet-type valves with unusual angled connecting pipes from 1st to 2nd and from 2nd to 3rd. Repair History: The main tuning-slide probably a replacement or alteration; the original main tuning-slide was probably c160mm shorter.
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1860-1865 - Maker:
A. Lecomte & Cie [Corporation] - Collection:
University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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Paris/France - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:423.231.2 Valve bugles with wide bore
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:423.231.2 Valve bugles with wide bore
- Repository:University of Edinburgh
- Measurements:948; bell 290.
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/17656