Accession No

0595

Brief Description

wooden pitch pipe

Origin

Maker

Class

physics; sound

Earliest Date

Latest Date

Inscription Date

Material

wood; metal

Dimensions

minimum length 430mm

Special Collection

Robert Whipple collection

Provenance

Purchased by Robert Stewart Whipple from T.H. Court (?) in 1930.

Inscription

Description Notes

Square wooden pipe with opening near bottom end and hollow centre into which is fitted a wooden stop with square sides and a turned upper end. The stop has a metal plate marked with the notes of the octave, named both by sol-fa notation and by letters.

Condition good; complete.

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