Technical description: Brass; ligature fitting on bell section at joint; stockings on main slides. Bell with one coil, angled to face forwards.
Decorative features: Painted dragon's head bell, with coiled forked tongue bell stay underneath head.
Usable pitch: Plays c 50 cents above A⁴ = 440 Hz with mouthpiece (3100).
Repair History: Main slide possibly not original (tenon of slide section of joint is tapered, bell section joint for cylindrical tenon).
No inscriptions.
Overall size; 1200.
Bore: at mouthpiece receiver 11.4; descending slide, 11.3; ascending alide, 11.5; joint, 11.5.
Dia of mouthpiece receiver: m.r.t. 11.4 (not tapered)
Crack in main bow. Ligature screw missing.
Main slide possibly not original (tenon of slide section of joint is tapered, bell section joint for cylindrical tenon).
Specific literature references: Probably to be identified with the `old trombone' in Engel 1872, No. 337a; Day 1891, item 371; G.S. (1968) No. 399.
Illustration references: Vol. 1 p.145; G.S. (1968) Plate XXI (4); Campbell and Greated 1987, p.384.
Provenance
Probably to be identified with the `Trombone with snake's head' purchased by Professor John Donaldson for the Music Classroom, University of Edinburgh, from Thomas Glen, 2 North Bank Street 20 August 1857 for £1/5/-.