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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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2TROMBONE. With six pistons. By Gustav Besson, 1855. There is an alternative bell, which can be used to replace the ordinary one when it is desired to throw the sound behind the player.
3Lent by Messrs. Besson and Co.
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6TENOR FLÜGEL HORN. With five valves (two ascending and three descending). By Adolphe Sax, 1856. The valves of this instrument could not be worked, and the pitch and system could not therefore be ascertained.
7Lent by Messrs. Besson and Co.
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10EUPHONION, in B♭. Called "Besson's Transpositeur," and made by Gustav Besson. This instrument is of interest as being one of the early attempts to rectify the lower register of brass instruments. It formed the subject of a patent in France in 1859, and provisional protection was granted in the same year for the invention in England. Each of the piston valves is furnished with twice the usual number of openings and air passages; one set communicates with a set of piston tubes of the ordinary length, the other with an additional set of rather longer piston tubes, which are calculated to produce sounds exactly a semitone lower in pitch than the former. The fourth valve, called the registre, or "transposing stop," is worked by the left hand. In the normal
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