Natural trumpet, D
Maker
Johann Wilhelm Haas
Date1690-1705 ca.
Place MadeNuremberg, Germany, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedEngraved on bell garland: IW HASS, fec, NoribergMarkingsMaster’s mark above the signature sloppily engraved: [leaping hare looking forward, facing left]
City hallmark (Beschauzeichen) stamped to the right of the signature: [Nuremberg city coat of arms] / N
DescriptionBrass; garland with serrated upper edge with scallop shell ornaments impressed from the front and raised with a spherical punch tool from the back (most of the raised punching now flattened down), tulip engraving; Nuremberg rim, rolled wire with raised dots; ferrules with engraved rings.
Simple, utilitarian trumpet from the early period of Johann Wilhlem Haas's career and possibly made by himself (rather than his workers), based on the fact that the word "fecit" appears in the signature. The Nuremberg city hallmark with the stamp "N" and the city coat of arms may indicate that "good hard solder" (possibly silver solder) was used in the manufacture.
Restored in 1984 by Ursula Menzel, Munich.
DimensionsHeight (restored): 686 mm
Tube length (restored): 2079 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum): 11.6 mm, 10.8 mm
Bell diameter: 108 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1985 from André Inauen, Zurich, Switzerland, who purchased it from an arms and armor dealer in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Published ReferencesKlaus, Sabine Katharina. Trumpets and Other High Brass, vol. 1: Instruments of the Single Harmonic Series (Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 2012), pp. 113, 116, 138.
Oleskiewicz, Mary. "The Rise of Italian Chamber Music," in: George B. Stauffer (ed.). The World of Baroque Music: New Perspectives (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006), p. 50, plate 10.
Larson, André P. The National Music Museum: A Pictorial Souvenir (Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 1988), p. 34, 35.
Banks, Margaret Downie. "17th & 18th-century Brass instruments at the Shrine to Music Museum," Brass Bulletin 58, no. 11 (1987), pp. 52, 53, and 55.
Credit LineBoard of Trustees, 1985
Object number03600
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