Tenor trombone, B-flat
Alternate name(s)
- Sackbut
Maker
Michael Nagel
Date1656
Place MadeNuremberg, Germany, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedBy maker: Engraved around circumference of garland on hatched background: MACHT MICHAEL [master's mark] NAGEL NVR 1656By repairer: Stamped on bell: BOHLAND & FUCHS / GRASLITZ / 8
MarkingsMaster's mark engraved on garland within shield: MN / [thrush facing right]
DescriptionBrass in two parts (slide section and bell section); bell with overlapping tab seam; upper edge of garland serrated with engraved stylized acanthus-leaf pattern, engraved concentric lines and quadruple stripled engraving; rim wire missing or flattened beyond recognition; flat bell stay with hinge-pin (pin replaced by Ursula Menzel), stay engraved on both sides with a depiction of a young woman, picking a flower; original Nagel ferrules at the bell, cast with engraved dragon-scale decoration; slide section later (likely 18th century) with much simpler ferrules with engraved lines and tubular slide stays, these stays formed of two distinctly different floral patterns (impressed with a rolling mill).
The stamp by Bohland & Fuchs on the original Nagel bell likely refers to a previous repair to the bell; the current state of the instrument is the result of a restauration by Ursula Menzel, Munich, in 1984. During this restauration, a small tubular section was added to the bell.
DimensionsTube length: 2660 mm
Slide length: 2 x 642 mm
Initial diameter receiver: 11.6 mm
Internal diameter inner slides: 9.8/9.5 mm
Bell diameter: 108 mm
Overall length: 1129 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1985 from Bernhard von Hünerbein, Cologne, Germany. Previously owned by Bohland & Fuchs, Kraslice (Graslitz), Czech Republic.
Published ReferencesKitzel, Larry. The Trombones of the Shrine to Music Museum. DMA dissertation (Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1985), p. 234 plate 235.
AMIS Newsletter, Vol. XV, No. 1, February 1986, p. 9.
Margaret Downie Banks, “17th & 18th-century Brass Instruments at the Shrine to Music Museum,” Brass Bulletin, Vol. 58, No. 11 (1987), p. 52 & 56.
André P. Larson, The National Music Museum: A Pictorial Souvenir (Vermillion:
National Music Museum, 1988), p. 39.
Stewart Carter, “Early Trombones in America’s Shrine to Music Museum,” Historic
Brass Society Journal, Vol. 10, 1998, pp. 92-115.
Credit LineBoard of Trustees, 1985
Object number03592
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1650 ca.