Tuba, F, low pitch
ALTERNATE NAME(S)
- Bass tuba
Date1848 ca.
Place MadeLauban, Germany, Europe
Serial No.None
SignedEngraved on a heart-shaped, nickel-silver plate soldered to the bell: Scharf = Schützen / Comp: in Lauban / 18 48.DescriptionBrass with nickel-silver trim. Three Berlin piston valves. Third valve lowers pitch by 2 whole tones. Leadpipe tuning slide, and main tuning slide after 3rd valve. All valve tubings have tuning slides. Bottom bow guard with large, solid nickel-silver fin. Garland is engraved with different flowers, leaves, and acorns.
DimensionsOverall length: 891mm
Bell diameter: 219 mm
Overall tube length: 3570mm
ProvenancePurchased from the Clifford A. Allanson Collection, Delmar, New York, June 6, 1981.
Published ReferencesBanks, Margaret Downie. "Nineteenth Century Brass Instruments at the Shrine to Music Museum." _Brass Bulletin_ 61, No. 1 (1988): 55.
Eliason, Robert E. “A Pictorial History of the Tuba & Its Predecessors.” _T.U.B.A. Journal_ X, No. 4 (Spring 1983): 32-33.
Heyde, Herbert. "The Early Berlin Valve and an Unsigned Tuba at the Shrine to Music Museum." _Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society_ 20 (1994): 54-64.
Mitroulia, Evgenia. "Adolphe Sax’s Brasswind Production with a Focus on Saxhorns and Related Instruments." PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2011. (p. 121)
Phillips, Harvey, and William Winkle. _The Art of Tuba and Euphonium_. Alfred Publishing Co. Inc., 1992. (appendix B, p. 91)
Credit LineBoard of Trustees, 1981
Object number02902
On View
Not on view
1900 ca.
