Trumpet, B-flat
Date1885-1895 ca.
Place MadeBohemia, Europe
Place MadeGermany, Europe
Serial No.none
SignednoneMarkingsStamped on underside of touchpieces, inside valve caps, and clock-spring support bar: 11.
DescriptionBrass, German silver, single loop, tuning slide at first bow, three rotary valves (1, ½, 1½), three-point-wing device, one stop pin, clock-spring return.
This typical German-type rotary valve trumpet shows similar braces with the flugelhorn NMM 6864 by Anton Konrad Hüttl, Graslitz. A provenance from the Vogtland or Bohemia is likely.
DimensionsHeight: 433 mm
Tube length: 1302 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slides): 11.2 mm, 10.5 mm, 11.4 mm, 11.3 mm
Bell diameter: 138 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1987 from Robert Hazen, Washington, D.C.
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. 154-155, 170-171, 302.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number06903
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1890-1910 ca.
