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Technical description: Silver-plated brass; fixed mouthpipe; French bell rim. 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.; ; ; ; ; ;
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Early 20th century - Maker:
Rudolph Wurlitzer & Co. - Collection:
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland - Inventory number:
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Cincinnati. - 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 Lyric / MADE BY / Rudolph Wurlitzer & Co. / CINCINATTI, / CHICAGO"; stamped on 2nd valve casing "2 / 1481"; stamped on other valve casings "1", "3"; stamped on valve spring washer guides on pistons "1 / 1481", "2 / 1481", "3 / 1481".
- 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 365; bell 120.; Sounding length: ; Bore: mouthpipe at c|35mm from mouthpiece receiver (minimum bore) 9.35; main tuning-slide from 287mm to 536mm rom mouthpiece receiver, m.t.s bore 11.45; auxiliary main tuning-slide (shunt) from 536mm to 712mm from mouthpiece receiver, m.t.s. bore 11.45; valve cluster from 712mm to 810mm from mouthpiece receiver, v.t.s. bore (3,2,1) 11.45.Dia of mouthpiece receiver: m.r.t. 9.7 - 9.45 (little taper).