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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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1of any already described. The second valve is larger than in the Stölzel model, and affords room for one horizontal, and two sloping, wind-ways. The first and third valves differ little from the Stölzel model. There are still several right-angled turns, but the bottoms of the valves are not actually employed as wind-ways. Stamped "Lausedat. Clermont Ferrand." Probably about 1835.
3Lent by Messrs. Besson and Co.
5400.
7CORNET, in B♭. With three wide valves (Perinet's patent), made about 1839. The three valves are constructed with built-up air passages, and add additional lengths of tubing equivalent to a semitone, a tone, and a tone and a half respectively. The construction of the bore, and the abrupt turns in the air passages, are very greatly modified, but the openings in the valves are larger than the corresponding wind passages; there is therefore an angularity when the valves are depressed, and hence the disposition of the air passages is not equalized, as is the case in instruments of the present day. Stamped "Besson, à Paris."
9Lent by Messrs. Besson and Co.
11401.
13CORNET, in B♭. French model. This instrument is merely a slight modification of the Perinet model described previously.
15Lent by Messrs. Boosey and Co.
17402.
19Bass, in B♭. Skeleton shape, and 6 feet high. By Adolphe Sax, 1850. There are three thick valves. All three passages through the valves are horizontal, the lower one being for the open notes; the other two, which are in use when the valve is depressed, are placed side by side, in the same horizontal plane as in the ordinary German cylinder action of the present day.
21Lent by Messrs. Besson and Co.
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