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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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1orchestra, the B♭ instrument being the more suitable for military bands.
3EUPHONION. WITH COMPENSATING PISTONS.
5The false intonation below
7inherent in the ordinary four-valve instrument, is by the compensating principle corrected, so that a true chromatic scale can be obtained down to the pedal C, without false fingering. And as can be seen from the engraving the extra weight of this arrangement is almost nothing.
9Lent by Messrs. Boosey and Co.
11435.
13EUPHONION, with extra short action. The short action in this and the instruments numbered 439 and 442 is gained by constructing the air passages through the valves with a sectional area of oval shape. Hence, without diminishing the section of the wind-ways, it is possible
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