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Keyed bugle.
Technical description: Copper with brass garland, stays, mouthpiece receiver sheath, chimneys and keywork. A finger-rest passes over the 3rd key from the bell. The 5th key from the bell is mounted on a bridge for operation by the left hand.The keys with leaf springs SATK, the spring ends running in channels on the keymounts.The open-standing bell key has a screw adjustment to regulate opening.With a small coiled copper and brass crook for B♭.; Nominal pitch: C.; Type or system: 7 keys.; Keyhead type: flat round with leather pads.; Keymount type: saddles.
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1834-49 - Maker:
Charles Pace. - Collection:
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland - Inventory number:
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London. - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:423.213-71 Labrosones with fingerholes and with keys, with (wider) conical bore
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- Inscriptions:Engraved on garland "Improved & Made by / CHAS. PACE / 49. King Street / Westminster"; inscribed on underside of the 1st (open-standing) key touchpiece "W" or "M".
- Hornbostel-Sachs category:423.213-71 Labrosones with fingerholes and with keys, with (wider) conical bore
- Repository:Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
- Measurements:Overall size: from plane of bell to 6th key 440; bell 161.; Sounding length: maximum 1168 (in|C).; Bore: instrument body at c|38mm from mouthpiece/shank/crook receiver (local minimum bore), 11.9; at 584mm from bell end, c|22.1; at c|361mm from bell end, 31.25; at 10.5mm from bell end, 112.5.B|=|0.49 (in|C, all keys closed); B|=|0.49 (with crook in B?, all keys closed).Bell cutoff |1100|Hz.Dia of mouthpiece receiver: m.r.t. 13.0 - 12.3 ( body mouthpiece/shank/crook receiver); 12.5 - 12.35 at 8mm (crook).