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Mellophone, E-flat
Distributor: Lyon & Healy
Date: 1897-1915 ca.
Place Made:Bohemia, Europe
Place Made:Czechoslovakia, Europe
Place Distributed:Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America
Model: Champion Silver Piston
Serial No: none
SignedEmgraved on bell: CHAMPION / SILVER PISTON / CHICAGO
MarkingsStamped on valve casings, respectively: 148 149 150
DescriptionBrass; with nickel-plated finish. Three, bottom-sprung Perinet piston valves. Mother-of-pearl touchpieces.
DimensionsCoil diameter: 280 mm
Bell diameter: 275 mm
Bore: cannot be measured
Bell diameter: 275 mm
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. 468-469.
Object number: 02219