423.213-71

Bass horn, wooden body of two straight tubes united in a butt, body leather-covered, with a bell of uncovered wood and a long swan-necked copper crook terminating in a brass ferrule not apparently adapted to take a mouthpiece directly. Six ivory-bushed finger holes, four brass keys. Cushion for back of left thumb. Brass stay at upper end of tubes. Lacks mouthpiece and flap of D sharp key. Stamped: J. Harding Maker Woking, Surrey.

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