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Ballad horn. Nominal pitch: C/B♭
Technical description: silver-plated brass; with shank forC and crook for B♭. Valve type: 3 Périnet valves, top sprung with compression spring inside hollow stem; alignment by unequal lugs on spring anchor plate.
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1869 - Maker:
Henry Distin & Co [Corporation] - Collection:
University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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London/England - 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:perpendicular to bell 350; corpus diameter c245: bell 180.
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/16423