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Buccin a tete de serpent
Buccin a tete de serpent
Buccin a tete de serpent

Buccin a tete de serpent

Date1800 ca.
Place MadeFrance, Europe
Serial No.none
SignednoneMarkingsnoneDescriptionBrass; with brass inner slides. Bell with stylized serpent or dragon head.
DimensionsPrimary bore: 10.6 mm
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Published ReferencesKitzel, Larry. The Trombones of the Shrine to Music Museum. DMA dissertation (Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1985), p. 87, plate 90.

André P. Larson, The National Music Museum: A Pictorial Souvenir (Vermillion: National Music Museum, 1988), p. 32.

Stewart Carter, “Early Trombones in America’s Shrine to Music Museum,” HistoricBrass Society Journal, Vol. 10 (1998), pp. 92-115.

"Musical Country Cousins. A Look at some rare folk instruments." _Selmer Bandwagon, no. 58 (1969), p.12
Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Object number01277
On View
On view
Serpent, D
Nicolas Pierre Joly
1829
Serpent, C (or low-pitch D)
C. Baudouin
1801-1812 ca.
Serpent, D
1820-1830 ca.
Serpent, C
William Lander
1820-1825 ca.
Gusle
1940-1960 ca.
Gusle
1940-1960 ca.
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