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Tenor valve trombone, B-flat, high pitch / low pitch

Tenor valve trombone, B-flat, high pitch / low pitch

Distributor: Lyon & Healy
Trade Name: Champion
Date: 1920-1925 ca.
Place Made:Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, Europe
Place Distributed:Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America
Model: Short model
Serial No: none
SignedStamped on bell: Champion / Silver Piston / Chicago
MarkingsStamped on receivers of mouthpiece and bell: 6
Stamped on valve cases and caps, respectively: 118, 119 / 4, 120
DescriptionBrass, imitation mother-of-pearl (finger buttons), double-loop body and single-loop bell, tuning slide with quick-change push rod at second smaller loop of body, three bottom-sprung Périnet valves (1, ½, 1½), aligmnent by one key on nickel-silver pistons, single water key at first bow, windway 1-2-3.

Champion Silver Piston Chicago was a tradename by Lyon & Healy in Chicago. The shape of the braces suggests Czech origin.
DimensionsLength (body): 752 mm
Tube length: 2611 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slides): 10.9 mm, 10.2 mm, 11.8 mm, 11.8 mm (0.465 inches)
Bell diameter: 192 mm (7 5/8 inches)
ProvenancePurchased in 1998 from Fred Oster, Vintage Instruments, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Credit Line: Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Not on view
Object number: 07336