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Bass trumpet, B-flat
Alternate name:Tenor Horn, B-flat
Date: 1900 ca.
Place Made:Saxony, Germany, Europe
Place Made:Sweden, Europe
Serial No: none
SignedUnsigned
MarkingsStamped on inner cover plates, valve caps, push rods and underside of touchpieces: 6 [or 9]
DescriptionBrass, German silver, double loop, bell front, tuning slide at narrow second bow (after valve section), three rotary valves (1, ½, 2), horseshoe stop, clock-spring return.
This bass trumpet (or bell-front tenor horn) was most likely used in a Swedish brass ensemble. The “Swedish fingering” with the third valve lowering the pitch by two whole tones was produced in Saxony for export to Sweden until the 1940s. In Sweden, tenor horns in kornett shape (meaning in bell-front configuration) were common in brass ensembles into the twentieth century, and the narrow bell flare is characteristic.
This bass trumpet (or bell-front tenor horn) was most likely used in a Swedish brass ensemble. The “Swedish fingering” with the third valve lowering the pitch by two whole tones was produced in Saxony for export to Sweden until the 1940s. In Sweden, tenor horns in kornett shape (meaning in bell-front configuration) were common in brass ensembles into the twentieth century, and the narrow bell flare is characteristic.
DimensionsHeight: 535 mm
Tube length: 2702 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slides): 11.2 mm 11.1 mm, 12.5 mm, 12.5 mm
Mid-bore diameter: 13.5 mm
Bell diameter: 179 mm
Tube length: 2702 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slides): 11.2 mm 11.1 mm, 12.5 mm, 12.5 mm
Mid-bore diameter: 13.5 mm
Bell diameter: 179 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1985 from Robert Hazen, Washington, D. C.
Terms
Credit Line: Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Not on view
Published ReferencesSabine 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. 193-196, 198-199, 306.
Sabine K. Klaus, "Bass trumpet or tenor horn in 9-foot B-flat," International Trumpet Guild Journal, January 2019, p. 43.
Sabine K. Klaus, "Bass trumpet or tenor horn in 9-foot B-flat," International Trumpet Guild Journal, January 2019, p. 43.
Object number: 06800