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Piccolo trumpet.
Technical description: Brass with german silver mouthpiece receiver sheath, outer slides, ferrules and valve parts. French bell rim. Detachable bell with single coil; single tuning slide (30mm maximum extension) with inner after valves and outer on moveable bell and ligature restraining screw at proximal end of bell pipe. There is a dummy loop under the valves with a single slide, the inner attached to the bell and the outer attached to the mouthpiece receiver sheath and the 1st and 3rd valve loops. There is a water key on the bellpipe coil. Only the 3rd valve has a tuning-slide.; Nominal pitch: B?.; Type or system: 3 valves.; ; ; ; Usable pitch: Probably built for use at A?=|440|Hz.; Performance characteristics: according to John Wallace, a completely different concept from the modern piccolo trumpet.
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Circa 1960 - Maker:
Scherzer. - Collection:
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland - Inventory number:
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Augsburg. - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:423.233.1 Valve trumpets with short air column (less than 2 m)
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- Inscriptions:Engraved on bell "Scherzer / Augsburg / Modell Prof. A.|Piechler 161553"; stamped on each valve connecting arm and under each touchpiece "7".
- Hornbostel-Sachs category:423.233.1 Valve trumpets with short air column (less than 2 m)
- Repository:Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
- Measurements:Overall size: from plane of bell to mouthpiece receiver 406 (tuning-slide fully closed); bell 77.5.; Sounding length: minimum 587.; Bore: mouthpipe at c|40mm from mouthpiece receiver (minimum bore) 10.15; valve cluster from 105mm to 200mm from mouthpiece receiver, v.t.s. bore (1,2,3) 10.95; main tuning-slide from 218mm to 255mm from mouthpiece receiver, m.t.s bore 10.95; at 294mm from bell end, c|11.55; at c|126mm from bell end, 16.35; at 8mm from bell end, 46.5.B|=|0.62.Bell cutoff |2700|Hz.Dia of mouthpiece receiver: m.r.t. 11.1 - 10.6.