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End-blown trumpet

End-blown trumpet

Vernacular name:Rkang-gling
Date: 1900 ca.
Place Made:India, Asia
Serial No: none
Signednone
MarkingsStamped on bell: INDIA
DescriptionCopper (body); nickel-silver (mouthpiece, applications). The main tubing is decorated with stamped diamonds, stripes, diagonal hatching, circles and curves; bell with cast sea-monster's head application and perforated, tear-drop-shaped applications. Fixed shallow-cup mouthpiece, no backbore.

Made for the tourist market.
DimensionsOverall length (straight): 351 mm
Tube length: 356 mm
External diameter (smallest, largest): 19.4 mm, 23.6 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1988 from Steve Dillon, Woodbridge, New Jersey.
Credit Line: Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Not on view
Published ReferencesKlaus, Sabine Katharina. Trumpets and Other High Brass: A History Inspired by the Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection. Volume 1: Instruments of the Single Harmonic Series (Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 2012), p. 275.
Object number: 06914