Trumpet, F, E, E-flat, D, and C
Maker
John August Köhler
Date1845 ca.
Place MadeLondon, England, Europe
Serial No.35
SignedDie-stamped brass plate on bell: BY HER / 10 (engraved) MAJESTY’S / ROYAL LETTERS PATENT / J, SHAW / INVENTOR / [Royal coat of arms with lozenge] / KOHLER SOLE MAKER / 35, HENRIETTA STT / COVENT GARDEN LONDONEmbossed on garland: KÖHLER MANUFACTURER HENRIETTA ST. COVENT GARDEN LONDON
MarkingsOwner’s inscription engraved on back of bell: Scots Fusilier Guards / No 4
Stamped on valve cases and finger buttons: 1, 2
Stamped on tuning bit: E [sign for delta]
DescriptionBrass, German silver, double loop, tuning slide at third bow, fixed leadpipe, shanks and crooks, two disc valves (1, ½), fixed disc in relief with cork buffers, square shaft, clock-spring return.
Conifer case with green paint and original cloth fitting; three brass crooks (E-flat, D, and C); three brass tuning bits with ears for low pitch F and E (original), and high pitch E (not original); two mouthpieces of German silver and brass with silver plating, the latter stamped “BUTLER LONDON” (neither of them original).
The instrument closely resembles the “patent lever trumpet” that Köhler put on display at the Great Exhibition in London in 1851.
DimensionsHeight: 425 mm
Tube length: 1744 mm, 1840 mm, 1861 mm, 1963 mm, 2092 mm, 2368 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slides): 11.4 mm, 10.7 mm, 11.1 mm, 11 mm
Bore diameter shanks and crooks (range initial, minimum): 11.5–11.3 mm, 10.3–8.7 mm
Bell diameter: 120 mm
ProvenancePreviously owned and used by the Scots Fusilier Guards No. 4, among the oldest British Infantry Regiments. By 1995, Tony Bingham, London, England. In 1995, sold by Bingham to Joe R. and Joella F. Utley.
Published ReferencesSabine K. Klaus, “Trumpet in F and Cornopean in B-flat by John August Köhler,” Historical Instrument Window, International Trumpet Guild Journal, Vol. 31, no. 4 (June 2007), p. 60.
http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/euchmi/galpin/gdkl.html.
Katherine Prior, In Good Hands: 250 Years of Craftsmanship at Swaine Adeney Brigg by (Cambridge: John Adamson, 2012), p. 77.
Frank Tomes, Sabine K. Klaus, and Arnold Myers: “Shaw, Koehler and the Disc Valve in Britain,” in: Galpin Society Journal 66 (March 2013), pp. 103, 106, 114.
Sabine Katharina Klaus, Trumpets and Other High Brass: A History Inspired by the Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection. Volume 3: Valves Evolve (Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 2017), pp. 262-265, 267, 269, 313.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07126
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