Ballad Horn in A Flat
Catalogue number: 6.10
Original name: Ballad horn in A flat.
Maker: Unknown.
Place of origin: Probably England, late 19th Century.
Overall size: 338mm, bell diameter: 128mm.
Sounding length: 1491mm.
Diameter of mouthpiece receiver: 7.9mm.
Technical description: Brass. Three Périnet bottom-sprung valves. Three valve tuning slides.
Inscription: No inscription on bell. Each valve marked ‘1’, ‘2’, and ‘3’ on RH side top.
Usable pitch: a’ = 440 Hz.
Previous owner: Philip E. Redfern, donated 2003.
Associated with item: Mouthpieces 13.10 and 13.11 and mute (cardboard covered with red leather).
Illustration references: See below.
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