Vented baroque trumpet, D, C
Maker
Meinl & Lauber
Date1970
Place MadeGeretsried, Bavaria, Germany, Europe
ModelModell Tarr 1970
Serial No.51
SignedEngraved on garland: MEINL & LAUBER / GERETSRIED / BAYERN / MODELL / TARR / 1970MarkingsStamped on mouthpiece receiver: 51
DescriptionBrass, shank for D and crook for C, both can be pulled out for the lower pitch of a1 = 415 Hz and are fixed at the leadpipe by a wing screw. Amado water key at first bow.
This model was developed by Edward H. Tarr in collaboration with the firm Meinl & Lauber in Geretsried in 1967, originally as strict copy, and then in 1970 with added vent holes. The bell profile and single-loop design is based on an original natural trumpet by Wolf Wilhelm Haas in the Bernoulli Collection at the Historisches Museum Basel. This “Modell Tarr” trumpet is equipped with four large holes at the back bow, one each for four different pitches, D (a1 = 440 and 415 Hz) and C (a1 = 440 and 415 Hz), equaling the transposing hole of the Helmut Finke/Otto Steinkopf “clarino trumpet.” When opening a hole, the harmonic series is transposed a fourth higher. Therefore the out-of-une 11th and 13th harmonics are replaced by the 8th and 10th harmonics, which are both in tune. Only one of the four holes is in use at any given time for one of the four pitches, while the other three vent-holes are closed up with rubber stoppers.
DimensionsHeight: 726 mm
Tube Length: 2124 mm (D), 2188 mm (D), 2434 mm (C), 2498 mm (C)
Bore diameter: 11 mm, 10.6 mm (minimum)
Bell diameter: 114 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1985 from Robert Hazen, Washington, D. C.
Published ReferencesKlaus, Sabine Katharina. 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), pp. 252, 269.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number06873
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