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Mellophone, E-flat

Mellophone, E-flat

Date: 1920-1930 ca.
Place Made:Czechoslovakia, Europe
Place Distributed:Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America
Model: Star
Serial No: none
SignedEngraved on bell: Star
MarkingsStamped on valve casings, respectively: 37 38 39
DescriptionBrass; with gold-lacquered finish. Three, bottom-spurng Perinet piston valves. Mother-of-pearl touchpieces.
DimensionsBell diameter: 260 mm
Bore: cannot be measured
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Credit Line: Arne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Not on view
Published ReferencesGary Moege, A Catalog of the Alto Brass Instruments in the Shrine to Music Museum, DMA dissertation, University of Oklahoma, 1985, pp. 146-147.
Object number: 00939