Cor anglais

Angular form. Three main joints of unstained maple with a boxwood knee and two brass mounts. The joints comprise a turned onion and cotton reel finial with curved brass crooks; the upper joint; a short, obtuse-angled knee-joint; the lower joint and the bell section of turned baluster-shape. Two square brass keys are mounted on turned, raised wooden sections, one of them a fish-tailed F key, the other a right hand Gsharp key. Both key pads are of leather. Pitch of the instrument: F.