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Keyed bugle
Nominal pitch: C. 6 keys. Technical description: Copper with brass garland, stays, mouthpiece receiver sheath, chimneys and keywork. A finger-rest passes over the 3rd key from the bell. The keys with leaf springs SATK, the spring ends running in channels inside the keymounts.The open-standing bell key has a screw adjustment to regulate opening. Keyhead type: flat round. Keymount type: saddles.
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Circa 1845 - Maker:
Pace, Charles [Person] - Collection:
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland - Inventory number:
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London (Timezone: Europe/London) - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:423.213-71 Labrosones with fingerholes and with keys, with (wider) conical bore
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- Inscriptions:Stamped on garland "IMPROVED / & MADE BY / CHAS. PACE / 49 KING ST. / WESTMINSTER".
- Hornbostel-Sachs category:423.213-71 Labrosones with fingerholes and with keys, with (wider) conical bore
- Repository:Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
- Measurements:Overall size: from plane of bell to 5th key 438; bell 160. Sounding length: maximum 1166. Bore: instrument body at c|25mm from shank/crook receiver (local minimum bore), 12.15; at 583mm from bell end, c|22.2; at c|375mm from bell end, 31.4; at 10.3mm from bell end, 113.5.<i>B</i>|=|0.49 (all keys closed).Bell cutoff |1100|Hz.Dia of mouthpiece receiver: m.r.t. 12.6 - 12.2.