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Gautrot-Marquet French
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Although valve trombones, particularly complicated and heavy examples such as this one with six idependent valves, did not achieve lasting popularity, Gautrot considered the instrument commercially attractive enough to produce a copy nearly indistinguishable from Sax’s original.
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Title: Tenor valve trombone in B-flat
Artist:
Gautrot-Marquet (French, Paris 1875–1884)
Date: ca 1882
Culture: French
Medium: Brass
Classification: Aerophone-Lip Vibrated-trumpet / trombone
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy and Robert Rosenbaum, 1978
Accession Number: 1978.283
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