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Author: John Scorgie
Date: 2001-08-07 07:28
Too small for a basset horn, which is pitched no higher than F.
From the dimensions it would appear that this horn is pitched either in B flat or C.
There is a famous jazz archive type photo of old New Orleans clarinetist Louis Nelson DeLisle (sp?) playing one of these.
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2001-08-07 13:19
I'll bet its an old-old clar in key of C. I threw in a bid, maybe again, its a museum piece prob. Don
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Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 2001-08-07 16:56
It's hard to tell from the photos. Given the relative size of the mouthpiece, it might be in C, but imagining the center joints with a normal barrel and bell, it looks more like a Bb. The given length of 21" isn't much help, since you don't know how they measured it. If they leaned it up against the wall and put a yardstick by it, then with the bell and the neck straightened out it would be the length of a Bb.
I've played only one instrument like this, years ago at Charlie Ponte's store, except that was a Boehm system. For what it's worth, it was one of the worst instruments I've ever played.
Wall display only, I think.
Ken Shaw
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