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A descriptive catalogue of the musical instruments recently exhibited at the Royal Military Exhibition, London, 1890 …, 1891
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11828; and his instrument was constructed in the shape of the basset horn, and had 17 keys. It sounded an octave below the c' clarinet. The maker Halary, of Paris, produced bass clarinets in brass, and this metal was for some time employed by Adolphe Sax. Following up the attempts of Streitwolf, Buffet succeeded in constructing a fairly reliable
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5CONTRA-BASS CLARINET.
7bass clarinet in c, an octave below the ordinary c' instrument, and which was employed by Meyerbeer in "Les Huguenots." This instrument underwent further improvements at the hands of Sax, and a contra-bass upon the same principles was brought out, but with small success. The German musician Wieprecht had been working in the
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