Tenor trombone, B-flat
Maker
Johann Carl Kodisch
Date1701
Place MadeNuremberg, Germany, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedEngraved on bell garland: MACHT · IOHANN · CARL · KODISCH · NVRNB 1701MarkingsMaster's mark engraved on garland: [horse jumping to the left] / ICK
DescriptionBrass body in two parts (slide section and bell section); bell with overlapping tab seam with silver solder; upper edge of garland with scallop shells with semicircular edges, raised with spherical punch tool from the back, garland with high-quality floral and tendril engravings; Nuremberg rim with ear-of-corn decoration; flat bell stay with engraved floral decoration, hinged connection to bell-pipe with pin; ferrules with rings of three to four engraved lines; tubular slide stays with diagonal stripes of floral decoration, fabricated in a rolling mill (same pattern as trumpet NMM 10782); loop of bell-bow saddle missing; slide-bow saddle not original.
DimensionsTube length: 2620 mm
Slide length: 625 mm and 627 mm
Initial diameter receiver: 11.6 mm
Internal diameter inner slides: 10.2 mm
Bell diameter: 125 mm
Overall length: 1106 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1989 from Ernst Buser, Binningen, Switzerland.
Published ReferencesLyndesay G. Langwill, An Index of Musical Wind-Instrument Makers, 6th edition (Edinburgh: Lyndesay G. Langwill, 1980), p. 93.
Howard Weiner, "The Trombone, Changing Times, Changing Slide Positions (Part 2)," Brass Bulletin 36 (1981), pp. 59-60.
"Treasures from the Age of Louis XIV," Shrine to Music Museum Newsletter 17, No. 1 (October 1989), p. 1-3.
"1989 Acquisitions at USD Music Museum," Newsletter of the American Musical Instrument Society 19, No. 1 (February 1990), p. 14.
Stewart Carter, "Early Trombones in America's Shrine to Music Museum," Historic Brass Society Journal 10 (1998), pp. 94-96, 105-107.
Credit LinePurchase funds gift of Clifford and LaVonne Graese, 1989
Object number04649
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