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Contralto saxhorn.
Technical description: Brass, French bell rim; bell-up form. Windway runs shank/crook receiver - m.t.s. - 3 - 2 - 1 - bell. With fitting for music-card holder; no water-key.; Nominal pitch: 4½-ft B?.; Type or system: Bell-up wrap.; ; ; ; ;
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2nd half of 19th century - Maker:
Boosey & Co [Corporation] - Collection:
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland - Inventory number:
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Probably France. - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:423.231.11 Valve bugles with narrow bore, with short air column (less than 2 m)
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- Inscriptions:Stamped on bell "HENRY GUNCKEL / PARIS"; on shank/crook receiver "x";on 1st valve casing "1";on 2nd valve casing "2 / G" and "0";on 3rd valve casing "3 / G" and "0".
- Hornbostel-Sachs category:423.231.11 Valve bugles 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 296; bell 117.5.; Sounding length: minimum without shank or crook, 1153.; Bore: mouthpipe at c|35mm from shank/crook receiver (minimum bore) 10.0; main tuning-slide from 205mm to 410mm from shank/crook receiver, m.t.s bore 11.75 ; valve cluster from 480mm to 715mm from shank/crook receiver, v.t.s. bore (3,2,1) 11.75; at 18mm from bell end, 69.2.Bell cutoff |1300|Hz.