Natural trumpet, D
Maker
Cornelius Steinmetz
Date1750 ca.
Place MadeNuremberg, Germany, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedEngraved on bell garland: M = CORNELIUS = STEIN / METZ IN = NURNBMarkingsMaster’s mark with initials engraved on bell garland: C [bunch of grapes] St
DescriptionBrass; garland with serrated upped edge with irregular triangles, tulip engraving; Nuremberg rim, rolled wire with leaf pattern; ferrules with impressed floral design (not typical for Steinmetz and not original to this trumpet).
The bell garland of this trumpet is very sloppily made with simple irregularly cut triangles at the upper edge. Trumpets of lesser quality were not uncommon in this late period of Nuremberg's production. This trumpet was preserved together with NMM 7249 and NMM 7250 as a group, and at some stage, the ferrules were mixed up. The impressed floral ferrule design of NMM 7251 is atypical for Steinmetz, but typical of Johann Leonhard Ehe II's work; the ferrules on NMM 7251 therefore likely were taken from the trumpets by J. L. Ehe II, NMM 7249 or NMM 7250, or both.
DimensionsHeight: 749 mm
Tube length: 2242 mm
Bore diameter (intitial, minimum): 10.6 mm, 10.0 mm
Bell diameter: 109 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1997 from Ernst Buser, Basel, Switzerland.
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. 100, 102, 106-8, 111, 124, 261.
Larson, André P. "One of the Great Collections … Joe & Joella Utley Donate More than 500 Rare Brass Instruments," America's Shrine to Music Museum Newsletter, Vol. 26, No. 4 (November 1999), pp. 1-3.
Barclay, Robert. The Art of the Trumpet-Maker (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), p. 110, 151 and 157.
Tarr, Edward H. La Tromba in Europa dal `500 al `900. Gli strumenti del Museo della Tromba di Bad Saeckingen (Montava: Tipografia Commerciale Cooperativa, 1991), p. 22-23.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07251
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