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Ophicleide
Tenor ophicleide in E flat. Brass body, plated, probably with nickel silver. Eleven pillar mounted keys with circular cupped flaps and leather pads. Looped crook with two stays and tuning slide fitting to body.
- Date:
circa 1860 - Maker:
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Horniman Museum and Gardens - Inventory number:
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Western Europe - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:423.213-71 Labrosones with fingerholes and with keys, with (wider) conical bore
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- Materials:solder, cork, leather, nickel silver-plating, copper alloy
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:423.213-71 Labrosones with fingerholes and with keys, with (wider) conical bore
- Repository:Horniman Museum and Gardens
- Measurements:overall: 890 mm x 360 mm