Baritone, nominal pitch: C - B♭

Auguste Courtois

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Alternative Title

Saxhorn baryton.

Instrument

Baritone saxhorn/Saxhorns/Wind/Musical Instrument ; Baritone saxhorn

Instrument Family

Wind

Maker

Auguste Courtois

Place Made

Paris ; Europe ; France ; Western Europe

Date Made

Post 1862

Description

Technical description: Brass. Windway runs mouthpipe - 4 - m.t.s. - 1 - 2 - 3 - bell. The main tuning-slide is long enough to lower pitch to B♭ and is graduated at positions for B♮ and B♭. Music card-holder fitting, no water-key. The bore expands very rapidly just beyond the valves.The bore profile approaches that of a euphonium and the instrument may have been intended to be used as a bass saxhorn, possibly in a marching band. Valve type: 4 Stölzel valves with spring inside hollow stem; alignment by unequal lugs on spring anchor plate. Signature / Marks: Inscribed on bell "AUGTE. COURTOIS AINE / BREVETÉ S.G.D.G / PARIS"; on lower side of valve casings "548"; on inner main tuning-slide adjacent to graduations "SI" and "SIB". Decorative features: Mother of pearl touchpieces. Usable pitch: Diapason Normale, plays c 20 cents below A⁴ = 440 Hz. Performance characteristics: Good response; tuning fairly good when in C, but flat fifth natural note of open tube when slide drawn for B♭, closer to D♭⁴ than D⁴. Serial number: 548. Overall size: 763; bell 219. Sounding length: minimum 2490; with slide pulled to graduation for Bb 2733. Bore: mouthpipe at c 35mm from mouthpiece receiver (minimum bore) 11.6; 4th valve piston 14.7, 4th valve tuning slide 15.0; m.t.s. at c 418mm from mouthpiece receiver, tuning slide bore 15.7; m.t.s. (without slide pulled) at c 760mm from mouthpiece receiver, tuning slide bore 15.7; centre of valve cluster at c 1098mm from mouthpiece receiver (without slide pulled), v.t.s. bore (1,2,3) 15.7; 1245mm from bell end, c 15.8; c 1156mm from bell end, 22.3. B = 0.46 (in C). Dia of mouthpiece receiver: m.r.t. 12.2 11.7. Purchased by lender with, probably formerly used with and possibly supplied by manufacturer with mouthpiece (3353). Illustration references: World Wide Web picture at http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/euchmi/

Notes

R. Parks, 27.11.93; Arnold Myers, bore 25.10.97.

Measurements

763; bell 219.

Provenance

on loan to the Collection.

Collection

MIMEd

Accession Number

3352