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Ophicleide.
Technical description: Brass; bell without gusset, with French rim. Bow guard with knob. Looped crook without tuning-slide. The crook tenon and receiver act as a tuning-slide, a ligature restraining screw holds the crook in position. With pillars to support instrument on both hands; also ring for neck strap. SATK. Screw adjuster to control opening of B key. Fitting for music-card holder.; Nominal pitch: C.; Type or system: 11 keys.; Keyhead type: round, slightly domed.; Keymount type: pillars on plates with channels for springs.; L0: @I{D.L1: @I{B.L2: @I{C♯.L3: @I{E♭.R0: @I{E.R1: @I{B♭.R2: @I{A.R3: @I{G; G♯.R4: @I{F; F♯. Usable pitch: Probably built for use at circa A₄=|446|Hz.
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Mid 19th century - Maker:
by Pask. - 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:Bell stamped with royal coat of arms / "PASK / 443 WEST.STREET / LONDON" (the inscriptions to be read with bell up).
- Hornbostel-Sachs category:423.213-71 Labrosones with fingerholes and with keys, with (wider) conical bore
- Repository:Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
- Measurements:Overall size: 1064; bell 202.; Sounding length: 2506 (all keys closed).; Bore: crook at c|20mm from mouthpiece receiver (minimum bore) 11.6; crook at 782 - 874mm from mouthpiece receiver (tenon), 33; at 1253mm from bell end, c|44.2; at c|757mm from bell end, 62.5.B|=|0.31 (all keys closed).Dia of mouthpiece receiver: m.r.t. 12.0 - 11.6.