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End-blown trumpet
Vernacular name:Narsĩgā
Date: 1900 ca.
Place Made:Bihar, India, Asia
Serial No: none
Signednone
Markingsnone
DescriptionCopper and brass; painted geometric decoration in yellow, red, and black (original paint remnants restored); five sections; double discs at joints filled with rattling material; integral cup-shaped sheet-brass mouthpiece folded over the edge at the beginning of the first segment and soldered to it.
DimensionsHeight: ca. 1050 mm
Tube length: ca. 1500 mm
External diameter sections: 12-29 mm/ 37-65 mm/ 70-74 mm/ 76-90 mm / 96-152 mm
Tube length: ca. 1500 mm
External diameter sections: 12-29 mm/ 37-65 mm/ 70-74 mm/ 76-90 mm / 96-152 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1997, New Delhi, India.
Terms
Credit Line: Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
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), pp. 52, 282.
Object number: 07207