Trumpet, C
Maker
Alois Gentner
Date1855-1860 ca.
Place MadeDillingen/Donau, Germany, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedStamped on garland: ALOIS GENTNER IN DIL[LINGEN]Markingsnone
DescriptionBrass, German-silver, double loop, Bavarian short model, telescopic tuning slide at leadpipe, main tuning slide at third bow, three double-piston valves (½, 1, 1½), clock-spring return.
Beginning in 1855, Alois Gentner is recorded as a musical instrument dealer in Dillingen; prior to that date, he was a military musician in the Bavarian army. He is known to have built numerous brass instruments, of which only two seem to have survived: this one and a bass trumpet in the Heimatmuseum Burgau (Germany). Since the 1870s, Gentner concentrated on free reed instruments for the local market.
DimensionsHeight: 270 mm
Tube length: 1168 mm, 1178 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slide): 11.2 mm, 9.4 mm, 10.7 mm, 10.9–10.6 mm
Bore diameter telescopic tuning slide (initial, minimum): 11.3 mm, 10.5 mm
Bell diameter: 106 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1984 from Stewart and Lillion Caplin, New York, New York.
Published ReferencesJoe R. Utley and Sabine K. Klaus, “The ‘Catholic Fingering’ – First Valve Semitone: Reversed Valve Order in Brass Instruments and Related Valve Constructions,” Historic Brass Society Journal, 15 (2003), p. 73.
-------. “The Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection: A Trumpeter’s Dream Comes True,” International Trumpet Guild Journal 34, no 4 (June 2010), p. 40.
Sabine Katharina Klaus. 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. XIV.
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. 80-81, 106-107, 156, 298.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number06821
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