Trompe de Lorraine, D
Date1910 ca.
Place MadeFrance, Europe
Serial No.none
SignednoneMarkingsnone
DescriptionBrass; conical tubing in twenty-two spiraling coils (eleven down and eleven up, alternating); main tuning slide at small U-turn that connects the downward with the upward spirals; two rings for sling, one located at tuning slide.
Later model Trompe de Lorraine without leather cover. Both models, the covered and the uncovered, are illustrated side by side in a catalogue of the Paris firm Millereau from 1910, providing a basis for dating.
DimensionsHeight: 357 mm
Tube length: ca. 4575 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum): 7.6 mm, 7.0 mm
Bell diameter: 164 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 2000 from André Bissonnet, Paris, France.
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. 213, 265.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 2000
Object number07489
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