Natural trumpet, D
Maker
Johann Wilhelm Haas
Date1710-1720 ca.
Place MadeNuremberg, Germany, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedEngraved on bell garland: IOHANN / WILHELM / HAAS / NURNBERGMarkingsMaster’s mark and initials engraved on bell garland: IWH / [leaping hare looking forward, facing left]
DescriptionBrass; bell garland with serrated upper edge with scallop-shell decoration (scallop shells stamped from the front and raised with a spherical punch tool from the back, several punch marks off center), applied cast angel's heads; Nuremberg rim, rolled wire with leaf-and-dot pattern; helical-fluting ferrules; cast ball with three male heads, two with pointed and one with broad headgear, representing the three Magi.
This trumpet falls in the middle period of J. W. Haas’s activity. Although very similar to NMM 7212, there are subtle differences, for example in the faces of the three male figures on the ball.
Restored in 1984 by Ursula Menzel, Munich.
DimensionsHeight (restored): 692 mm
Tube length (restored): 2076 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum): 11.6 mm, 11. mm
Bell diameter: 111 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1985 from André Inauen, Zurich, Switzerland.
Published ReferencesKlaus, Sabine Katharina. Trumpets and Other High Brass: A History Inspired by the Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection. Vol. 1: Instruments of the Single Harmonic Series (Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 2012), pp. 113, 116, 130-131.
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.
André P. Larson, The National Music Museum: A Pictorial Souvenir (Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 1988), p. 34.
Margaret Downie Banks, "17th & 18th-century Brass instruments at the Shrine to Music Museum," Brass Bulletin 58, no. 11 (1987), p. 52.
Credit LineBoard of Trustees, 1985
Object number03601
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