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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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1The most recent application of such an arrangement was used at a recital at Trinity College, Cambridge, in February this year (1891). A work of Schütz was performed requiring
3on the bass trombone, and intended for the F instrument (being impossible upon the G); an attached valve was made by Messrs. Boosey and Co. for the G instrument, with tubing to give the tone from the low D of the G trombone to the C required.
5An endeavour to simplify the fingering of valved instruments was made in 1860 by Mr. Richard Carte, who, in conjunction with the cornet player Macfarlane, patented a device, by which all the sharps and flats could be produced by the depression of an extra valve (giving a semitone difference in pitch). This allowed the same fingering required for the natural notes, with the addition only of the extra valve, thus facilitating the use of certain keys usually difficult of execution. Rapid execution, however, was impossible, and, consequently, the device never became general.
7The use of valves has led at different times to attempts to produce a double instrument, by means of two sets of tubings of different proportions, the air passing into either at the player's will by the depression of a valve. Distin endeavoured to combine the trumpet and bugle thus, and his example was followed by M. Mahillon. As, however, the proportion of the bore of the bugle is so entirely different from that of the trumpet, their attempts met with scant success, the true quality of both the trumpet and bugle being absent; and an attempt of the same kind was exhibited by M. Chediwa in the Paris Exhibition in 1889. A combined euphonion and baryton, or trombone, was made by C. G. Conn, of Elkhart, Indiana, U.S.A., three or four years ago. The instrument succeeded in America; the English makers, Boosey and Fontaine Besson, have made similar instruments for American players. In such a combination both instruments suffer, as it is impossible to preserve the true trombone tone, with pistons large enough in bore for the euphonion. This defect M. Fontaine Besson has endeavoured to correct in his Doublophone, in which the pistons are made with two distinct sets of passages and valve tubings, of
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