Tenor trombone, B-flat, high pitch
Maker
F. Besson
Date1885-1900 ca.
Place MadeLondon, England, Europe
ModelPrototype
Serial No.none
SignedEngraved on small brass shield: (in banner) 40 MEDALS OF HONOUR / FB (monogram) / F. BESSON / “Prototype” / 198 EUSTON ROAD / LONDON / [five-pointed star]MarkingsStamped on mouthpiece receiver: 50
DescriptionBrass; with brass inner slides and nickel-silver stockings.
DimensionsBell diameter: 7-1/2 in (191 mm)
Primary bore: 0.445 in (11..3 mm)
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. 135-137.
Larry Kitzel, dissertation, page 53, plate 56.
Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Object number00443
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