Trumpet, B-flat, A
Maker
Friedrich Alwin Heckel
Date1940 ca.
Place MadeDresden, Saxony, Germany, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedEngraved on bell: F. A. Heckel / Instrumentenmacher / Dresden.MarkingsStamped on valve casings, spring stems, valve caps and largest guide lug, respectively: 1, 2, 3
DescriptionSilver-plated brass, mother-of-pearl finger buttons, single loop, main tuning slide with quick-change to A stop rod at first bow, three Périnet valves (1, ½, 1½), top-sprung, spring inside hollow stem, alignment by three lugs on spring anchor plate, nickel-siver-plated brass pistons, elliptical ports at entrance, intervalve, and exit from valve segment, round valve-port loops, single water keys at main tuning slide and third valve slide, windway 3-2-1.
Silver-plated brass trumpet mouthpiece, stamped: KARL FUCHS / 6 / 2.
This trumpet was made in the late 1930s or in the 1940s, when Theodor Alwin Heckel (1883-1954) continued his father's workshop. Friedrich Alwin Heckel (1845-1915) was no longer alive at that time. Périnet valve trumpets were rarely produced in the Heckel workshop. A former Heckel employee reported that during his entire time only one trumpet with Périnet valves was manufactured for a trumpeter of the Berlin Philharmonic. This may be that trumpet, but evidence is lacking. The elliptical cross-section of the intervalve passages, valve entrance and exit is unusual.
DimensionsHeight: 488 mm
Tube length: 1323 mm
Bore diameter (initial, mininum, tuning slide, valve slides): 11 mm, 9.6 mm, 11.44 mm, 11.32 mm
Bell diameter: 107 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1998 from Günter Dullat, Nauheim, Germany.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07348
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