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Trumpet, B-flat

Trumpet, B-flat

Date: 1905 ca.
Place Made:Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany, Europe
Serial No: none
SignedEngraved on bell within ornamental tendril design: Ed. Kruspe / Hoflieferant / Erfurt
MarkingsStamped on bottom of spatula levers and sides of rotor casings, respectively: 7 8 9
DescriptionRotary-valve trumpet with horn-like side-action string rotary valves, very likely influenced by the collaboration between Kruspe and the Philadelphia hornist Anton Horner (1877-1971). In ca. 1900 the Kruspe firm developed a horn with string-rotary valves in collaboration with A. Horner, now known as Horner model.

Brass; with nickel-silver trim. Three rotary valves with string linkages.
DimensionsHeight: 457 mm (18 in)
Bell diameter: 140 mm (5-1/2 in)

ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Credit Line: Arne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Not on view
Published ReferencesDavid Wayne Knutson, A Catalogue of the European Cornets and Trumpets at the Shrine to Music Museum, D.M.A. Thesis, University of Illinois, 1992, pp. 157-160.
Object number: 04392