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Technical description: Silver-plated brass with gold wash inside bell; fixed mouthpipe; French bell rim; 'shepherd's crook' bellpipe. With alternative main tuning-slides for high pitch and low pitch; with shunt on auxiliary main tuning-slide for B? - A change with screw adjustable restraint. Water-keys on lead pipe and on auxiliary main tuning-slide. With fitting for music-card holder.; Nominal pitch: B?|-|A.; ; ; ; ; Usable pitch: Alternative main tuning-slides and shunt allow use at any pitch from circa A?=|435|Hz to circa A?=|460|Hz.;
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1893-1915 - Maker:
H. N. White [Corporation] - Collection:
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland - Inventory number:
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Cleveland, Ohio. - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:423.232.11 Valve horns with narrow bore, with short air column (less than 2 m)
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- Inscriptions:Engraved on the bell "THE KING / MADE BY / H.N. WHITE / CLEVELAND / OHIO"; stamped on 2nd valve casing with lion's head / "THE KING / MADE BY / H.N. WHITE / CLEVELAND. O. / 3171 /M"; stamped on other side of valve casings "1", "2", "3"; stamped on valve spring washer guides on pistons "1 / 3171", "2 / 3171", "3 / 3171"; stamped on low pitch main tuning-slide "3171".
- Hornbostel-Sachs category:423.232.11 Valve horns with narrow bore, with short air column (less than 2 m)
- Repository:Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
- Measurements:Overall size: from plane of bell to bow proximal 340; bell 122.; Sounding length: minimum 1276 (with shorter slide), 1346 (with longer slide); shunt adds up to 96.; Bore: mouthpipe at c|25mm from mouthpiece receiver (minimum bore) 8.71; main tuning-slide from 297mm to 513mm (shorter slide) from mouthpiece receiver, m.t.s bore 11.6; auxiliary main tuning-slide (shunt) from 513mm to 698mm from mouthpiece receiver, m.t.s. bore 11.6; valve cluster from 698mm to 798mm from mouthpiece receiver (with shorter slide), v.t.s. bore (3,2,1) 11.6; at c|296mm from bell end, 16.4; at 21mm from bell end, 66.B|=|0.60 (in B? high pitch), B|=|0.61 (in A low pitch).Bell cutoff |1300|Hz.Dia of mouthpiece receiver: m.r.t. 9.6 - 8.75.