Sousaphone, bell up, E-flat, high pitch / low pitch
Alternate name(s)
- Raincatcher
Maker
H. N. White Company
Date1911-1918 ca.
Place MadeCleveland, Ohio, United States, North America
ModelKing
Serial No.29017
SignedEngraved within floral background on bell: King / MADE BY / THE H. N. WHITE CO. / CLEVELAND / OHIO.MarkingsStamped on bottom of first valve casing is: -"KING"- / MADE BY / H. N. WHITE / CLEV’D, O. / 29017. Stamped on bottom of valve casings and undersides of valve caps: 1 (first valve), 2 (second valve), and 3 (third valve). Serial number also stamped on main tuning slide ferrule and distal end of neck. Score marks on internal tubing of slides, probably for pull to low pitch
DescriptionBrass; with (later) gold-colored lacquer finish. Three, bottom-sprung Perinet piston valves.
DimensionsBell diameter: 512 mm
Coil diameter (perpendicular to bell): 620 mm
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
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), pp. 71-72.
André P. Larson, The National Music Museum: A Pictorial Souvenir (Vermillion: National Music Museum, 1988), p. 15, 58, 59.
” Gallery I Dedicated October 9,” Shrine to Music Museum, Inc. Newsletter, Vol. 9, No. 2 (January, 1982), 4.
Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Object number00341
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