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

Tenor valve trombone, B-flat, high pitch

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Date1889-1890 ca.
Place MadeLondon, England, Europe
ModelPrototype
Serial No.43027
SignedEngraved on bell: 40 MEDALS OF HONOUR (in banner) / FB (monogram) / F. BESSON / “Prototype” / 198 EUSTON ROAD / LONDON / [star] / ENGLAND / C. FISCHER / 6. 4TH Av. N.Y. / SOLE AGENT U. STATES
MarkingsStamped on slide receiver: 696 or 969
Stamped on valve casings, respectively: 15 14 13
Stamped within an oval on second valve casing: F. BESSON / [star] / BREVETEE
DescriptionBrass. Silver-plated. Three, top-sprung Perinet piston valves.
DimensionsBell diameter: 7-1/8 in (180 mm)
Primary bore: 0.465 in (11.8 mm) (taken at second valve tuning slide)
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
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. 139-141.
Larry Kitzel, dissertation, page 53, plate 55
Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Object number00436
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