Piccolo trumpet, B-flat
Maker
Helmut Finke
Date1970 ca.
Place MadeExter, Westphalia, Germany, Europe
ModelHoch B-Trompete
Serial No.none
SignedEngraved on bell: [triangle, vertical line, triangle] / FINKE / [vertical line, triangle, vertical line]MarkingsStamped on rotors and underside of touch pieces: 2
DescriptionBrass, German silver (valve parts, ferrules, finger hook, pull ring and knob), straight, detachable bell with tuning slide and ligature screw, four mechanical-linkage rotary valves lowering the pitch by a whole tone, semitone, minor third, and fourth, horseshoe stop, coil-spring return, windway 1-2-3-4.
Principally, the same model as NMM 7186 in the less decorative style of the 1970s. The short tube section is soldered obliquely to the main tubing and fourth valve loop is open at both ends, not part of the active tubing. It was likely intended for holding and balancing the straight instrument.
DimensionsHeight and tube length: 618 mm
Height bell: 364 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, bell slide, valve slides): 10.8 mm, 8.9 mm, 11 mm, 11 mm
Bell diameter: 90 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1997 from Walter Chestnut, Amherst, Massachusetts.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07244
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