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Stopped trumpet, F, D, C
Alternate name:Trompette demi-lune
Maker: John Webb
Date: 1990
Place Made:London, England, Europe
Serial No: 147
SignedStamped on brass-cartouche on bell: WEBB / LONDON
MarkingsStamped on ferrule at inserted crook: 147
DescriptionBrass; central U-shaped tuning slide; two terminal crooks for D and C.
This reproduction is losely modeled on South German stopped trumpets. By bending the trumpet, its overall body length could be shortened to make hand-stopping possible, as in the horn. The invention of the stopped trumpet is attributed to court trumpeter Michael Wöggel (1748-1811) of Karlsruhe, Germany, who is said to have collaborated with organ and pianoforte maker Johann Andreas Stein (1728-1792) in Augsburg around 1777. Bent trumpets were known in France as trompette demi-lune, trumpets in the form of a half-moon.
This reproduction is losely modeled on South German stopped trumpets. By bending the trumpet, its overall body length could be shortened to make hand-stopping possible, as in the horn. The invention of the stopped trumpet is attributed to court trumpeter Michael Wöggel (1748-1811) of Karlsruhe, Germany, who is said to have collaborated with organ and pianoforte maker Johann Andreas Stein (1728-1792) in Augsburg around 1777. Bent trumpets were known in France as trompette demi-lune, trumpets in the form of a half-moon.
DimensionsHeight: 358 mm
Tube length: 1823 mm, 2191 mm, 2448 mm
Bore diameter (initial, internal): 12 mm, 11.1 mm
Bell diameter: 110 mm
Tube length: 1823 mm, 2191 mm, 2448 mm
Bore diameter (initial, internal): 12 mm, 11.1 mm
Bell diameter: 110 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1990 from Scott Sorenson, Burnsville, Minnesota.
Terms
Credit Line: Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Not on view
Published ReferencesKlaus, Sabine Katharina. Trumpets and Other High Brass: A History Inspired by the Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection. Volume 2: Ways to Expand the Harmonic Series (Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 2013), pp. 145, 256.
Object number: 06995