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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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1und Pauken Kunst, Halle, 1795), and it appears probable that the slide principle was adapted from the trombone at a comparatively late period, and that the slide trumpet supplanted the Inventions trumpet (or hand trumpet) of Michael Wögel, an instrument described upon page 151.
3The scale of the modern slide trumpet extends from
5but contains several gaps which cannot be filled. The slide is constructed sufficiently long to allow of four positions, and is kept automatically closed by means of a spring. Within the last year an application of the double slide principle has been made to the trumpet by Mr. W. Wyatt, who has taken out a patent for his improvement. The instrument thus constructed possesses a complete chromatic scale, and loses nothing of the quality of the ordinary slide trumpet. The remarks already made about the double slide are of course equally applicable in this case, for the shifts necessarily being very short require great nicety of manipulation on the part of the player.
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8Tenor Slide Trombone. Of brass. The rim of bell is engraved with floriated pattern, and there are winged cherub's heads in raised work at intervals. Inscribed with maker's name as follows: "Macht. Hanns Hainee, in Nurnberg, 1668"; also on rim of bell a cock's head flanked with initials H. H., no doubt Hainee's device or trademark. The stays of both bell and slide are chased and engraved, the slide-stays being, by an ingenious arrangement, detachable. This instrument is a good example of the pre-eminence of the Nuremburg metal art in the Middle Ages. Plate XI., fig. A.
10Lent by the Conservatoire Royal de Musique, Brussels.
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13Tenor Trombone. With bell shaped to resemble a dragon's head. Probably made about 1800. The shape of the bell is made in imitation
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