Keyed trumpet, G, F, E, E-flat, and D
Maker
John Webb
Date1988
Place MadeLondon, England, Europe
Serial No.89
SignedStamped on copper cartouche on garland: WEBB / LONDONMarkingsStamped on bell: 89
DescriptionBrass; double loop (shorter, longer loop); tuning slide at second bow; six closed keys for the right hand with flat key heads, pillar mounted with spiral springs, tone holes with brass chimneys.
Four crooks for F, E, E-flat and D, and one tuning shank for G.
Free copy of a keyed trumpet by Valeriano Beni, Città di Castello, 1836, at the Horniman Museum, London (14.5.47 / 286). Most details are authentic, except that the keys are closed by modern spiral springs instead of flat springs and the key heads are flat not round.
DimensionsHeight: 439 mm
Tube length: 1550 mm, 1625 mm, 1625 mm, 1782 mm, 1913 mm, 1987 mm, 2100 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum): 12.2 mm, 11 mm
Bell diameter: 140 mm
Keyhole positions (from bell end): 216 mm, 342 mm, 396 mm, 476 mm, 543 mm, 619 mm
Keyhole diameters: 16 mm, 13 mm, 11.5 mm, 11.5 mm, 11.5 mm, 11.5
ProvenancePurchased in 1988 from Scott Sorenson, Burnsville, Minnesota.
Published ReferencesKlaus, Sabine Katharina. Trumpets and Other High Brass: A History Inspired by the Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection. Volume 2: Ways to Expand the Harmonic Series (Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 2013), pp. 181, 257.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number06909
On View
Not on view
1835-1840 ca.
