DescriptionTechnical description: Cocus wood with german silver crook, ferrules, and keywork. Probably original unnamed cocus wood mouthpiece with a german silver mount grooved for cord. Crook with a device for a music card holder. Straight speaker with a small chimney. Key to cover the thumb-hole end-pivoted from below. L1/L2 spectacle on upper section operating a vent just over L1. L3, R1 and R3 tone-holes covered. Ring on R2. Additional L4 lever for G♯₃/E♭₅. Shaped thumb rest, sling ring. Very wide wooden bell. 14 keys, 2 rings, 4 covered tone-holes.
L0: Plate; speaker.
L1: T + ring; throat A♮; throat A♭.
L2: T + ring.
L3: Plate; side F₄/ C₆; E♭₄/B♭₅.
L4: C♯₄/G♯₅; E₃/B♮₄; F♯₃/C♯₅; G♯₃/E♭₅.
R1: Plate; side F₄/ C₆; side E♭₄/B♭₅; side trill key for throat A-B♮ and B♭-C.
R2: T + ring.
R3: Plate; side B♮₃/F♯₅.
R4: F₃/C₅; G♯₃/E♭₅.
Keyhead type: shallow cups.
Keymount type: screwed in pillars with push pins.
Playing accessories: reed, ligature (wrong for the mouthpiece).
Tenon-socket connections very loose.
Seems to have been varnished and has since decoloured.
Specific usage history: possibly used in a marching band.
Previous ownership: Lunden-Welden, Stockholm. |