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Over-the-shoulder bass trumpet, C
Distributor: H. A. Weymann & Son
Date: 1890 ca.
Place Made:Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, Europe
Place Made:Saxony, Germany, Europe
Place Distributed:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North America
Model: Keystone State
Serial No: none
SignedStamped on bell: WEY MANN / KEYSTONE / STATE / PHILA. PA.
MarkingsStamped on inside of lower valve caps: 12
DescriptionBrass, German silver, two and a half loops, tuning slide at second bow, fixed leadpipe, three rotary valves (1, ½, 1½) three-point-wing device, one stop pin, clock-spring return.
“Keystone State” was a brand name for Henry A. Weymann & Son in Philadelphia. The firm was mostly active as a musical instrument dealer and best known for banjos.
It is likely that the bell with the signature and the body of this instrument did not originally belong together but were married later to form an over-the-shoulder bass trumpet (or tenor horn). The mechanical-linkage rotary valve construction of this instument is not American, but typically German, Austrian or Bohemian, as are other features such as the braces. The instrument has a make-shift character.
“Keystone State” was a brand name for Henry A. Weymann & Son in Philadelphia. The firm was mostly active as a musical instrument dealer and best known for banjos.
It is likely that the bell with the signature and the body of this instrument did not originally belong together but were married later to form an over-the-shoulder bass trumpet (or tenor horn). The mechanical-linkage rotary valve construction of this instument is not American, but typically German, Austrian or Bohemian, as are other features such as the braces. The instrument has a make-shift character.
DimensionsHeight: ca. 735 mm
Tube length: 2525 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slides): 11.4 mm, 10.7 mm, 13.3 mm, 13.2 mm
Bell diameter: 176 mm
Tube length: 2525 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slides): 11.4 mm, 10.7 mm, 13.3 mm, 13.2 mm
Bell diameter: 176 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1989 from Lark in the Morning, Mendocino, California.
Terms
Credit Line: Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Not on view
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), p. 306.
Object number: 06957