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Trumpet, G, E-flat

Maker Charles Mahillon

Date1878-1880 ca.

Place MadeBrussels, Belgium, Europe

Serial No.none

SignedStamped on bell: C. MAHILLON / FOURNISSEUR BREVETE / DE L’ARMEE / ET DES / CONSERVATO[I]R[E]S / BRUXELLES Impressed medallion on bell: MANUFACTURE GENERALE D’INSTRUMENTS DE MUSIQUE / [Belgium Royal Coat of arms: Lion rampant, crown, motto L’UNION FAIT LA FORCE] / MEDAILLE D’OR / EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE / PARIS 1878.MarkingsnoneDescriptionBrass, German-silver, double loop, tuning slide at second bow, three double piston valves (1, ½, 1½), pushrods with springs in cylinders (système belge).

Funnel-shaped brass mouthpiece (not original), and brass crook lowering the pitch to E-flat (unclear if original).

Système belge double-piston valves based on two Belgian patents by Henri Lebrun of 1856 (no. 3.712) and 1873 (no. 3.712).
DimensionsHeight: 380 mm
Tube length: 1642 mm, 1944 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slide): 12.5 mm, 10.9 mm, 10.9 mm, 11 mm
Bore diameter: 110 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1999 from Tony Bingham, London, England.
Published ReferencesSabine K. Klaus, "Trumpet in G by Charles Mahillon," in "Historical Instrument Window," International Trumpet Guild Journal 35, No. 3 (March 2011), p. 46.

-------. “Metallblasinstrumente im Zeitalter des Erfindergeistes” in Valve Brass Music: 200 Jahre Ventilblasinstrumente, ed. by Conny Restle und Christian Breternitz (Berlin: Nicolai, 2014), p. 6203.

Conny Restle and Christian Breternitz, eds. Valve Brass Music: 200 Jahre Ventilblasinstrumente . (Berlin: Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, 2014), p. 15.

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. 101-103, 106-109, 299.

Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999

Object number06203

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