End-blown trumpet
Vernacular Name
- Rkang-gling
Date1950 ca.
Place MadeTibet, Asia
Place MadeNorth India, Asia
Serial No.none
SignednoneMarkingsnone
DescriptionCopper, brass; repoussé dragon’s head bell and dragon’s body tubing; shallow-cup mouthpiece fixed to beginning of tubing.
Tourist instrument.
DimensionsOverall length (straight): ca. 520 mm
Tube length: 545 mm
External diameter (smallest, largest): 13 mm, 20 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1997, New Delhi, India.
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), p. 282.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07202
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