Buccin a tete de serpent
Date1800 ca.
Place MadeFrance, Europe
Serial No.none
SignednoneMarkingsnone
DescriptionBrass; 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 view1820-1830 ca.
1940-1960 ca.
1940-1960 ca.