DescriptionTechnical description: Boxwood with horn ferrules and brass keywork. Six pieces: mouthpiece, barrel, upper section, middle section for the fingers of the right hand, lower section with keys, bell. Probably original cocus wood mouthpiece grooved for cord. Levers for L4, tone-hole and key for R4 mounted in a fusiform swelling. F♯₃/C♯₅ lever shaped. Five keys in saddles, six keys in blocks. Integral wooden thumb rest. Brass lined thumb tube not projecting into bore. 11 keys.
L0: T; speaker.
L1: T; throat A♮; throat A♭.
L2: T.
L3: T; F₄/C₆.
L4: C♯₄/G♯₅; E₃/B♮₄; F♯₃/C♯₅.
R1: T; side E♭₄/B♭₅; side trill key for throat A-B♮ and B♭-C.
R2: T.
R3: T; B♭₃/F♮₅.
R4: T; G♯₃/E♭₅.
Keymount type: blocks, saddles, swelling.
Keyhead type: flat square.
Saddle of side trill key on upper section loose.
Repair History: With two new keys (restored in 1995).
Usable pitch: circa 435. |