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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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1M. Arban finding that the additional weight of this cornet, combined with the complicated mechanism, was a serious obstacle to its being generally adopted by artists, produced the year following, in conjunction with M. Bouvet, an instrument of simpler construction.
3M. Bouvet, a civil engineer, had already turned his attention to the construction of valved instruments, and had invented a system of unique design, and which had many advantages. It consisted in the employment of seven independent positions, for which six pistons were required. To simplify the fingering the octave and super-octave harmonics only were employed, the flats and sharps being produced by the depression of two touch-pieces, connected with two cylinders of peculiar construction, called distributeurs mécaniques. The system, although patented in France in 1884, does not seem to have been followed up by the inventor.
5MM. Arban and Bouvet produced in conjunction in 1885 an instrument having the advantages of the Arban cornet of 1884, but without the complicated mechanism. In the Arban-Bouvet cornet there were the same 21 positions; but practically 14 only were employed. And the success of this instrument, the use of which M. Arban rendered obligatory for his pupils, was such that a further improvement was made, by which the system was applied to cornets with three pistons only. The Arban-Bouvet system was also applied generally to brass instruments of all kinds.
7Lent by S. A. Chappell, Esq.
9427.
10FLÜGEL HORN, in B♭. With three patent compensating pistons.
11By Boosey and Co.
12Lent by Messrs. Boosey and Co.
14428.
15HORN. With two pistons and four crooks. By Antoine Courtois. Shown as an example of an instrument much employed. The model is copied from that of Raoux, whose instruments are now scarce, and highly prized by horn players. Greatest width 22 inches.
17Lent by S. A. Chappell, Esq.
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