Trompe de Lorraine, D
Maker
Jacques Christophe Labbaye
(successor to Raoux)
Date1875 ca.
Place MadeParis, France, Europe
Serial No.84
SignedEngraved on bell garland: Raoux. Breveté s.g.d.g.14 rue des Minimes. ParisMarkingsImpressed and repoussée copper shield on bell, where the leather cover is cut away: TROMPE DE LORRAINE / [boar’s head with sword and scabbard; oak leaves and acorns lining the sides]
Stamped on top brass cap: 84
DescriptionBrass, partly covered with brown leather; tightly wound, full-length 14-foot tubing; two rings for sling.
The Trompe de Lorraine, a "hunting horn in the shape of a conch," was patented by Pierre Théodore Grégoire in Paris on June 6, 1867. Very long tubing is concealed within a compact leather cover. The original design had tubing with square cross section.
DimensionsHeight: 457 mm
Bell diameter: 152 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1997 from Tony Bingham, London, England.
Published ReferencesBanks, Margaret Downie. "Brass Instruments from the Utley Collection Fill the Museum’s Horn of Plenty this Harvest Season - More to the Trompe de Lorraine than Meets the Eye." America’s Shrine to Music Museum Newsletter 26, no. 4 (November 1999), pp. 7-8.
Klaus, Sabine Katharina. Trumpets and Other High Brass: A History Inspired by the Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection. Volume 1: Instruments of the Single Harmonic Series (Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 2012), pp. 212-13 and 264.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07184
On View
Not on view
1910 ca.
