Herald trumpet, B-flat
Maker
C. G. Conn, Ltd.
Date1958-1959
Place MadeElkhart, Indiana, United States, North America
Model3B Victor Herald Trumpet
Serial No.764623
SignedStamped on bell: [three marching bandsmen with sousaphone, saxophone, and trumpet] / CONN / U.S.A.MarkingsStamped and engraved on second valve casing: 764623 / V
Stamped on leadpipe: VICTOR “B”
Stamped on screw for lyre holder: E
Stamped on valve casings and pistons, respectively: 1 (third valve), 2, 3 (first valve)
DescriptionBrass (burnished), German-silver (valve caps), mother-of-pearl finger buttons, two parts: single loop valve segment with S-shaped leadpipe, U-bow main tuining slide; separate straight bell, bell slide with ligature screw (at valve segment receiver), three Périnet valves (1, ½, 1½), bottom-sprung, alignment by vertical guide pin in piston bearing, pin with cork mantle, Clickless Crysteel pistons, single water keys at first bow and third valve slide, windway 1-2-3.
Brass lyre.
Late example of the Victor line with typical simplified decoration. Valve type follows US patent no. 1,938,321 (granted on December 5, 1933, to Willard P. Dausman, assignor to C. G. Conn, Ltd., Elkhart, Indiana). The main concern of this patent was to prevent rotation of the piston within the valve casing by adding a “rod-like key…” which “engages slidably in a bearing hole…” of the piston.
DimensionsHeight (overall): 897 mm
Height bell: 536 mm
Tube length: 1380 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, bell slide, valve slides): 10.9 mm, 8.4 mm, 11.1 mm, 11.6 mm, 11.1 mm
Bell diameter: 129 mm
ProvenancePurchased from Richards Band Instruments, Dallas, Texas; purchase date information unavailable.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number06892
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