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Soprano Flugelhorn, E-flat
Soprano Flugelhorn, E-flat
Soprano Flugelhorn, E-flat

Soprano Flugelhorn, E-flat

Alternate name(s)
  • Pikkolo, E-flat
Date1900 ca.
Place MadeThorn, Poland, Europe
Serial No.FRC-52
SignedEngraved on bell garland: F. A. Goram Thorn.MarkingsEngraved on bell: 2 Engraved on leadpipe: FRC-52 (serial or band number) Stamped on garland: 5 [?]…2 Stamped on underside of touchpieces and horizontal push rods: 2 Stamped on underside of touchpieces and horizontal push rods of second valve: one dot Stamped on underside of touchpieces and horizontal push rods of third valve: two dotsDescriptionBrass, German silver, single loop, telescopic tuning slide at leadpipe, three rotary valves (1, ½, 1½), three-point-wing device, one stop pin, clock-spring return.

F. August Goram was born in Wohlbach, near Adorf, close to Markneukirchen, where he trained with Friedrich August Schüller between 1885 and 1887. Goram founded a workshop in Thorn before 1894, and moved to Dresden in 1920. The city of Thorn is now in Poland, but was Prussian territory until 1919.
DimensionsHeight: 317 mm
Tube length: 956 mm, 968 mm
Bore diameter receiver: 11.7 mm
Bore diameter valves: 11.3 mm
Bore diameter tuning slide: 10.9 mm
Bell diameter: 100 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1986 from Robert Hazen, Washington, D. C.
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. 182-183, 189, 303.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number06865
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