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Tuba, E-flat, low pitch
Maker: Bohland & Fuchs
Distributor: Smith & Co.
Date: 1900-1915 ca.
Place Made:Kraslice (Graslitz), Austria, Europe
Serial No: none
SignedEngraved on bell: SMITH & Co. / LONDON
Stamped on second valve casing: B&F
Stamped on second valve casing: B&F
MarkingsStamped on valve casings, respectively: 82 83 84
Stamped on second valve casing: 5
Stamped on mouthpiece receiver: AUSTRIA
Stamped on second valve casing: 5
Stamped on mouthpiece receiver: AUSTRIA
DescriptionBrass; with silver-plated finish. Three, bottom-sprung Perinet piston valves.
DimensionsHeight: 730 mm
Bell diameter: 380 mm (distorted)
Bore: cannot be measured
Bell diameter: 380 mm (distorted)
Bore: cannot be measured
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Terms
Credit Line: Arne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Not on view
Published ReferencesAndré P. Larson. Catalog of the Nineteenth-Century British Brass Instruments In The Arne B. Larson Collection of Musical Instruments. Ph.D. Dissertation. Morgantown, West Virginia: West Virginia University, 1974, pp. 128-130.
John Joseph Swain, A Catalog of the E-flat Tubas in the Arne B. Larson Collection at the University of South Dakota, Ph.D. Dissertation (East Lansing: Michigan State University, 1985), p. 180.
John Joseph Swain, A Catalog of the E-flat Tubas in the Arne B. Larson Collection at the University of South Dakota, Ph.D. Dissertation (East Lansing: Michigan State University, 1985), p. 180.
Object number: 00277