DescriptionTechnical description: Blackwood with german silver crook, ferrules, keywork, and bell. Five pieces: mouthpiece, crook, upper section, lower section, and upright bell. Two speaker keys: one straight speaker with a chimney on top of the upper section to give throat B♭ when depressed with the throat A key. The second speaker has a chimney on the crook and is used to overblow. Device for a music card holder on top of the upper section. Pinned for strength. All tone-holes covered. Shaped thumb rest. Sling ring. 14 keys, 7 covered tone-holes, 2 red rollers on L4 levers.
L0: Plate; speaker 1 + 2.
L1: Plate; throat A♮; throat A♭.
L2: Plate.
L3: Plate; cross E♭₄/B♭₅.
L4: C♯₄/G♯₅; E₃/B♮₄; F♯₃/C♯₅.
R1: Plate; side F₄/ C₆; side E♭₄/B♭₅; side trill key for throat A-B♮ and B♭-C.
R2: Plate + spectacle.
R3: Plate + spectacle (forked B♭₃/F♮₅); cross B♭₃/F♮₅.
R4: G♯₃/E♭₅; F₃/C₅.
Keyhead type: modern.
Keymount type: screwed in pillars. |