Tuba, E-flat, high pitch
Maker
Hall & Quinby
Date1866-1875 ca.
Place MadeBoston, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Serial No.none
SignedEngraved on bell, surrounded by laurel wreath: Made by / HALL & QUINBY, / BostonMarkingsStamped on valve casings, cap/rings, and underside of touchpieces, respectively: 8 [sic] 10 11
DescriptionBrass; with silver-plated finish. Nickel-silver garland. Three, Allen-type rotary valves with string linkages.
DimensionsHeight: 1170 mm
Bell diameter: 285 mm
Bore: cannot be measured
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Published References“Gallery I Dedicated October 9,” Shrine to Music Museum, Inc. Newsletter Vol. 9, No. 2 (January 1982), page 4.
John 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. 62, photo 64.
André P. Larson, The National Music Museum: A Pictorial Souvenir (Vermillion: National Music Museum, 1988), p. 58.
John Swain, “The E-Flat Tubas in the Shrine to Music Museum,” “Tuba History,” Gary Stewart, ed., T.U.B.A. Journal, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Winter 1988), page 36 & 37 (photo).
Harvey Phillips and William Winkle, The Art of Tuba and Euphonium, 1992. Appendix B., p. 94.
Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Object number00247
On View
Not on view
1860-1875 ca.