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Harmonicor

Harmonicor free-reed instr. in form of a horn, with 27 piston valves arranged in keyboard fashion, patented by Jaulin of Paris on Dec. 31, 1861. The instr. had a compass of 2 octs. and is said to have sounded like an oboe. When made in trumpet form, it was called harmonitrompe.

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