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Coiled fanfare, B-flat
Coiled fanfare, B-flat
Coiled fanfare, B-flat

Coiled fanfare, B-flat

Date1935-40 ca.
Place MadeMainz, Germany, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedStamped on bell: K.D.W. / M. Enders / MAINZ
Markingsnone
DescriptionGerman-silver-plated brass; two coils; seven tube segments: cylindrical leadpipe with telescopic tuning slide; three stepped cylindrical tube segments, each overlapping the previous one at a ferrule-less joint; conical tube segment; bell.

It is difficult to categorize this instrument because of its unusual construction; it could be called a "coiled fanfare," and may have served some special ceremonial purpose during the National Socialist regime. The large bell and funnel-shaped mouthpiece are characteristics of a horn-type instrument, the tubing is arranged in cylindrical steps of increasing diameter.

Max Enders, the successor to Carl August Müller in Mainz, was active from about 1900 until after 1935, being listed as Hessian Court Instrument maker in 1900.
DimensionsHeight: 784 mm
Tube length: 2690 mm
Bore diameter: 11.9 mm
Bell diameter: 256 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1998 from Günter Dullat, Nauheim, Germany.
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. 228-29, 2233, 239, 265.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07356
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