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Tuba, E-flat
Maker: Couesnon & Cie
Date: 1923 ca.
Place Made:Paris, France, Europe
Serial No: none
SignedStamped on bell: EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE DE PARIS (in banner) / 1900 / HORS CONCOURS / MEMBRE DU JURY / [monogram] / COUESENON & CIE / FOURNESSEURS DE L’ARMIE / PARIS / CHATEAU-THIERRY / 23 (within a pomegranate)
MarkingsStamped on valve casings, respectively: 1 2 3
Stamped on second valve casing: L / 2
Stamped on mouthpiece receiver: FRANCE / ND C
Stamped on second valve casing: L / 2
Stamped on mouthpiece receiver: FRANCE / ND C
DescriptionBrass. Three, bottom-sprung Perinet piston valves. Mother-of-pearl touchpieces.
DimensionsHeight: 730 mm
Bell diameter: 375 mm
Bore: cannot be measured
Bell diameter: 375 mm
Bore: cannot be measured
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Terms
Credit Line: Arne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Not on view
Published ReferencesJohn Joseph Swain, A Catalog of the E-flat Tubas in the Arne B. Larson Collection at the University of South Dakota, Ph.D. Dissertation (East Lansing: Michigan State University, 1985), p. 264.
Object number: 00121