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End-blown trumpet
Vernacular name:Rkang-gling
Date: 1950 ca.
Place Made:North India, Asia
Place Made:Tibet, Asia
Serial No: none
Signednone
Markingsnone
DescriptionCopper, brass; repoussé dragon’s head bell and dragon’s body tubing; shallow-cup mouthpiece fixed to beginning of tubing.
Tourist instrument.
Tourist instrument.
DimensionsOverall length (straight): ca. 520 mm
Tube length: 545 mm
External diameter (smallest, largest): 13 mm, 20 mm
Tube length: 545 mm
External diameter (smallest, largest): 13 mm, 20 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1997, New Delhi, India.
Terms
Credit Line: Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Not on view
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.
Object number: 07202