Flugelhorn, C
Maker
L. Jacob
Date1900 ca.
Place DistributedStuttgart, Germany, Europe
Place MadeBohemia, Czechoslovakia
Place MadeSaxony, Germany
Serial No.none
SignedEngraved on garland: L. Jakob, Stuttgart.MarkingsValve caps, underside of touchpieces, push rods, and inner cover plates stamped: 44
DescriptionBrass, German silver, single loop, telescopic tuning slide at leadpipe, three rotary valves (1, ½, 1½), three-point-wing device, one stop pin, clock-spring return.
Brass mouthpiece contemporary with the instrument.
Levi Jakob (1848/9-1925) was a Jewish musical instrument and music dealer in Stuttgart. He is recorded in Stuttgart directories from 1875 until his death in 1925. Since 1903 Jacob was operating the firm jointly with his son-in-law Hugo Schack at various locations in Stuttgart. Between 1912 and 1920 the firm apparently made brass, woodwind and string instruments, possibly from assembled parts imported from Saxony or Bohemia.
DimensionsHeight: 367 mm
Tube length: 1145 mm, 1152 mm
Bore diameter receiver: 11.6 mm
Bore diameter valves: 10.8 mm
Bore diameter tuning slide: 11 mm, 10.8 mm
Bell diameter: 130 mm
Published ReferencesSabine Katharina Klaus, Trumpets and Other High Brass: A History Inspired by the Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection. Volume 3: Valves Evolve (Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 2017), pp. 173-174, 187, 303.
Sabine K. Klaus, "A Flugelhorn Unsilenced: Lost notes of Jewish musical-instrument history," in: National Music Museum Newsletter, volume 41, no. 1 (Summer 2017), pp. 6-7.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07139
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