Caption on the back reads:
[in pen] Gervase de Peyer Principal Clarinetist London Symphony Orchestra listending to the 'C' from conch shellist Eric McGavin! In the Boosey and Hawkes Museum.
[in pencil] Could it be cut. The famous conch shell at Brighton- but not at all as we wanted it- and really we cannot do with another picture of McGavin!! OM.
Photograph: Gervase de Peyer and Eric McGavin listening to the conch shell in the Boosey & Hawkes Museum
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object | ARC/BAL/004/104
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object | ARC/DEZ/397/1545
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