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Mellophone, E-flat
Maker: Bohland & Fuchs
Distributor: Chicago Musical Instrument Company
Date: 1920-1935 ca.
Place Made:Czechoslovakia, Europe
Place Distributed:Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America
Model: American Student
Serial No: none
SignedEngraved on bell: AMERICAN / student / Made By / Boland & Fuchs / Bohemia
MarkingsStamped on valve casings, respectively: 52 53 54
Stamped on the second valve casing: 12
Stamped on the second valve casing: 12
DescriptionBrass; with silver-plated, satin finish. Three, top-sprung Perinet piston valves. Mother-of-pearl touchpieces.
DimensionsBell diameter: 260 mm (10-1/4 in)
Bore: cannot be measured
Bore: cannot be measured
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Terms
Credit Line: Arne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Not on view
Published ReferencesGary Moege, A Catalog of the Alto Brass Instruments in the Shrine to Music Museum, DMA dissertation, University of Oklahoma, 1985, pp. 324-325.
Object number: 01946