DescriptionTechnical description: Boxwood with ivory ferrules and brass keywork. Six pieces: mouthpiece, barrel, upper section, middle section for the fingers of the right hand, lower section with keys, bell. Levers for L4, tone-hole and key for R4 mounted in a fusiform swelling. Extendable L4 keys indicate that there were pieces de rechange in B♭.
L0: T; speaker.
L1: T; throat A♮.
L2: T.
L3: T.
L4: E₃/B♮₄; F♯₃/C♯₅.
R1: T.
R2: T.
R3: T.
R4: T. G♯₃/E♭₅.
Keyhead type: flat square.
Keymount type: turned wooden rings, swelling.
Mouthpiece missing.
Specific literature references: Rice 2003, p.32.
Previous ownership: Tony Bingham. |