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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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3Bass Horn, in C. This very curious looking instrument is made of wood, and is stained black and bound with brass. It is made of two separate pieces of conical wooden tubing, which fit into a shallow butt-joint also of wood. There are six finger-holes, bushed with ivory, and three flat brass keys on saddles, giving B, F#, and C#. There is a bent crook of brass, and it is played with an ivory mouthpiece. The bell is contracted, and resembles that of the cor anglais, but on a much larger scale. The maker's name has been stamped upon the brass rim of the bell; it is now almost illegible, but is apparently "F. Pace, M"[aker]. Total length 33 1/2 inches. Diameter at bell 3 7/8 inches, diameter at small end 1/2 inch. Inside diameter of mouthpiece 7/8 inch. The compass is from
5or even f". This instrument dates from the latter end of the 18th century, and is evidently one of the earliest efforts to perfect the serpent by giving it a fresh shape and more regular bore, thereby rendering the scale less capricious. Plate VII., fig. C.
7Lent by Mr. Q. Cecconi.
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11Bass Horn, in C. An instrument of wood, covered with leather and painted black. There are six finger-holes and three round brass keys, two on saddles and one on pillars. The instrument is constructed, like that previously described, of two tubes fixed in a short butt-joint. The conical tubes, however, are in this case bored with their axes running parallel, in the same block of wood. The bell is of brass, and is fashioned in the form of a serpent's head. The keys give F#, Eb, and C#. The instrument is stamped "Tabard, à Lyons," and has the same compass as that described previously.
13Lent by the Conservatoire Royal de Musique, Brussels.
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