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Baritone bugle.
Technical description: Drum corps model. Brass, 2-coil, bell with circumferential seam. Longitudinal valve placement, operated by pushing piston towards bell end. Water-keys on main tubing and on valve loop. Valve lowers by perfect fourth; no valve tuning-slide. Finger-hook for R1 or L1 (depending on whether R0 or L0 operates the valve). Mother-of-pearl or abalone inset in touchpiece.; Nominal pitch: 11-ft G.; Type or system: 1 valve.; ; ; ; Usable pitch: Probably built for use at circa A?=|440|Hz.;
- Date:
Mid-20th century - Maker:
Leedy & Ludwig. - Collection:
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland - Inventory number:
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Elkhart. - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:423.233.2
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- Inscriptions:Inscribed on bell "Leedy & Ludwig / ELKHART-IND. / U.S.A."; stamped on valve casing "221189".
- Hornbostel-Sachs category:423.233.2
- Repository:Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
- Measurements:Overall size: from plane of bell to mouthpiece receiver proximal 540; bell 138.5.; Sounding length: minimum 3262.; Bore: mouthpipe at c|50mm from mouthpiece receiver (minimum bore) 10.35; main tuning-slide from 875mm to 1160mm from mouthpiece receiver, m.t.s bore 12.3; valve from 1270mm to 1365mm from mouthpiece receiver, v.t.s. bore 12.3; at 1631mm from bell end, c|12.3; at c|462mm from bell end, 17.4; at 17.35mm from bell end, 95.55.B|=|0.71.Bell cutoff |1000|Hz.Dia of mouthpiece receiver: m.r.t. 12.3 - 11.3.