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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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1impossible, execution, besides allowing for the production of shakes of all kinds upon every note of the chromatic scale. The annexed engraving, a facsimile of that in M. Besson's specification of December 1, 1857, shows the position of the extra tubing and valves, as originally designed for a cornet thus constructed. This system was shortly afterwards applied to all brass instruments.
3A rather different arrangement, but designed with much the same object, had been made by M. Gustav Besson in 1855. To reduce the mechanism a single rotary cylinder, constructed with two separate touch-pieces which could be moved either way, was employed. This enabled, by the use of each cylinder, three separate positions to be obtained. The diagram, a facsimile of that in the French specification
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