End-blown trumpet
Vernacular Name
- Rkang-gling
Date1850 ca.
Place MadeChina, Asia
Serial No.none
SignednoneMarkingsnone
DescriptionGreen enamel (external tube); silver (mouthpiece, internal tube, bell, and ferrules); repoussé or cast and engraved sea-monster’s head bell. The cylindrical enamel tube encloses a slightly conical silver tube that starts very narrow at the mouthpiece throat, and becomes slightly wider at the bell. The outside of the main tubing is divided in six segments by seven ferrules with engraved wavy patterns and alternating turquoise and coral inlay. Fixed cup-shaped mouthpiece.
DimensionsOverall length: ca. 530 mm
Tube length: 395 mm
External diameter: 23 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1998 from E. & J. Frankel, Ltd., New York, New York,
Published ReferencesKlaus, 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. 15-17, 275.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07322
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