Trumpet, F
Maker
Josef Wolf
Date1848-1899 ca.
Place MadePrague, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, Europe
SignedStamped on garland: JOSEF WOLF PRAHA PRAGMarkingsEngraved on leadpipe: F
Stamped on support braces of clock spring mechanism, underside of touchpieces, and connecting rods between clock spring and valve cases: 5
Stamped on inside of lower valve caps and valve cases: 7
Engraved arrows mark the correct position of all slides.
DescriptionBrass, German silver, double loop, tuning slide at third bow, fixed leadpipe, three rotary valves (1, ½, 1½), three-point-wing device, one stop pin, clock-spring return.
Josef Wolf was apprenticed to his father, August Wolf (1793-1874), who had trained in Graslitz. Josef Wolf established his own workshop in Prague in 1848 and, after his father's retirement in 1867, joined the two workshops. Josef Wolf then operated in factory style until 1899, when his son August Josef took over. The rotary valves of this trumpet are of the Viennese type after Leopold Uhlmann’s patent from 1843; characteristics of this design are the protruding cork-buffer holders.
DimensionsHeight: 435 mm
Tube length: 1654 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slides): 11.3 mm, 10.8 mm, 10.8 mm, 10.9 mm
Bell diameter: 121 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1987 from George Borodi, Cleveland, Ohio.
Published ReferencesEliason, Robert E. “D. C. Hall and the Quinby Brothers, Boston Music Industry Leaders: Makers of Brass Instruments with Flat, Round, Square and Piston Valves,” in: Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society 33 (2007), p. 92.
Sabine K. Klaus, “Metallblasinstrumente im Zeitalter des Erfindergeistes” in Valve Brass Music: 200 Jahre Ventilblasinstrumente, ed. by Conny Restle und Christian Breternitz (Berlin: Nicolai, 2014), p. 35.
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. 145, 148, 153-154, 170-171, 302.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number06896
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