DescriptionTechnical description: Blackwood with german silver ferrules and keywork. Five pieces: mouthpiece, barrel, upper section, lower section, bell. 1010 model. Original named and numbered ebonite mouthpiece. All tenons lined with german silver. Straight speaker. All tone-holes under rings lined with ebonite. Integral wooden bell rim. 17 keys, 6 rings.
L0: T + ring F₄/C♮₆; speaker.
L1: T + ring F♯₄; throat A♮; throat A♭.
L2: T + E♭₄/B♭₅ corresponding ring.
L3: T; cross E♭₄/B♭₅.
L4: C♯₄/G♯₅; F₃/C♮₅; E₃/B♮₄; F♯₃/C♯₅.
R1: T + ring B♭₃/F♮₅ via correspondence; side E♭₄/B♭₅; side F♯₄/C♯₆; trills 1-2.
R2: T + ring B♮₃/F♯₅ via correspondence.
R3: T + ring B♮₃/F♯₅ via correspondence; cross B♮₃/F♯₅.
R4: G♯₃/E♭₅; E₃/B♮₄; F₃/C♮₅; F♯₃/C♯₅.
Keymount type: screwed in pillars.
Keyhead type: modern.
Playing accessories: reed, ligature, reed-cap.
With brown double case with (4880).
Also in case: red velvet to cover the instruments, soft small leather pillows to settle them, a brush, cleaning cloth, cleaner, two etuis with each 6 reeds, cork grease. Case has an address of previous owner: E.H. Nurse, 21 Furzedown Road, Sutton, Surrey.
A matched pair with (4880) not (4883) [done by HF]. |