Trumpet, G
Maker
Dominicus Leicher
Date1840-1846 ca.
Place MadeAugsburg, Bavaria, Germany, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedEngraved on garland: Dominicus Leicher [lyre on plinth] in AugsburgMarkingsValve caps engraved with one to three strokes for identification.
DescriptionBrass, double loop, tuning slide at first bow, three double-piston valves (½, 1, 1½), clock-spring return.
Few instruments by Dominicus Leicher survive from his brief period of activity in Augsburg. Leicher was an apprentice of Andreas Barth in Munich. He married the widow of the Augsburg brass instrument maker Georg Lintner and continued Lintner's workshop. Barth's influence can be seen in Leicher's use of cupped piston ends. The reversed valve order with the semitone at the first valve was common in Bavaria until the early 20th century.
DimensionsHeight: 345 mm
Tube length: 1562 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slide): 11.7 mm, 11 mm, 11.1 mm, 11.1 mm
Bell diameter: 124 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1997 from Frank J. Cipolla, Buffalo, New York.
Published ReferencesJoe R. Utley and Sabine K. Klaus, “The ‘Catholic Fingering’ – First Valve Semitone: Reversed Valve Order in Brass Instruments and Related Valve Constructions,” Historic Brass Society Journal, 15 (2003), p. 76.
Sabine 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. 79-80, 106, 108-109, 298
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07189
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