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Keyed trumpet, G
Distributor: Gebrüder Hoyer
Date: 1835-1840 ca.
Place Made:Vienna, Austria, Europe
Place Made:Schönbach, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, Europe
Model: Viennese-type keyed trumpet
Serial No: none
SignedStamped on garland to be read from the mouthpiece end: GEB: [embossed Hapsburg double eagle surrounded by dots in oval] HOŸER
Markingsnone
DescriptionBrass, double loop (shorter, longer loop), five closed keys for the left hand for g-sharp, a, b-flat, b-natural, and f2. No tuning slide; tuning bit not original.
Gebrüder Hoyer were musical instrument dealers in Vienna, who originated from Schönbach in Bohemia (near Markneukirchen). This typical Viennese keyed trumpet may therefore originate either from Vienna or may have been made in Bohemia and only sold in Vienna.
Gebrüder Hoyer were musical instrument dealers in Vienna, who originated from Schönbach in Bohemia (near Markneukirchen). This typical Viennese keyed trumpet may therefore originate either from Vienna or may have been made in Bohemia and only sold in Vienna.
DimensionsHeight: 438 mm
Tube length: 1521 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum): 11.5 mm, 10.3 mm
Bell diameter: 129 mm
Keyhole position (from bell end): 235 mm, 339 mm, 402 mm, 491 mm, 651 mm
Keyhole diameter: 11 mm, 10 mm, 10 mm, 10 mm, 10 mm
Tube length: 1521 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum): 11.5 mm, 10.3 mm
Bell diameter: 129 mm
Keyhole position (from bell end): 235 mm, 339 mm, 402 mm, 491 mm, 651 mm
Keyhole diameter: 11 mm, 10 mm, 10 mm, 10 mm, 10 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 2004 from Jack and Suzanne Sigler, Ruskin, Florida.
Terms
Credit Line: Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 2004
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. 153, 174, 176–77, 187, 257.
-------. “Die englische Klappentrompete: Eine Neueinschätzung,” in: Romantic Brass. Ein Blick zurück ins 19. Jahrhundert, ed. by Claudio Bacchiagaluppi and Martin Skamletz. Musikforschung der Hochschule der Künste Bern, vol. 4 (Schliengen: Edition Argus, 2015), p. 241.
-------. “Die englische Klappentrompete: Eine Neueinschätzung,” in: Romantic Brass. Ein Blick zurück ins 19. Jahrhundert, ed. by Claudio Bacchiagaluppi and Martin Skamletz. Musikforschung der Hochschule der Künste Bern, vol. 4 (Schliengen: Edition Argus, 2015), p. 241.
Object number: 10786