Thank you Howard and Hans on either of the lists I cannot read especially the old style Cyrillic letters, but I can normally decipher Western words as used by Russians in writing and by ear.
Howard offers a reading: I.K. is unknown to me, but may equal Ltd., GMBH, or AS in English, German, or Danish. V.F. Chervepim & Sypovyia is V. F. Cerveny & Sons VT. Kenigrets: VT. may be a Russian abbreviation for the Austrian- Hungarian double monarchy. Königsgrätz was the seat of Cerveny. This simply is a Cerveny instrument intended for the pre-WWI Russian market. About the pitch of Db, which was used among other places also in my country I have become some doubts, as I based it on the main bugle measurement of the seller: 4,5m. Visually that instrument appears to be in BBb, maybe old high pitch. I have asked the seller, whether the measurement wasnt rather 5,5m. In the meantime a Norwegian tuba-friend has chimed in with a partial translation pointing in the same direction. In gratefulness: Your Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre ____________________________________________________________________________________ The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing. http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/arp/sponsoredsearch_v2.php _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
