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Tenor trombone, B-flat
Maker: Johann Paul Franck
Date: 1744
Place Made:Hildburghausen, Thuringia, Germany, Europe
Serial No: none
SignedStamped on bell garland: MACHT * IOHANN * PAULL * FRANCK * IN * HILDBURG * HAUSSEN * ANNO * 1744
DescriptionBrass body in two parts (slide section and bell section), garland and bell-stay silver-plated; bell with overlapping tab seam and signs of spinning; garland engraved with a festoon pattern between signature legend and rim; Nuremberg rim of floral-impressed wire; flat bell-stay engraved and stamped with floral designs on both sides, hinge and hinge-pin silver-plated, hinge saddle encloses the entire circumference of the bell pipe and is engraved with zigzag-line patterns and stamped with tiny flowers; tubular slide stays with rolling-mill-impressed floral design; ferrules with engraved double lines; bell-bow and slide-bow saddles with engraved zigzag lines.
Restored by Instrumentenbau Egger in Basel in 1989: The missing mouthpipe inner slide with the upper ferrule and part of the cross stay were replaced. All silver parts were newly silver plated.
Restored by Instrumentenbau Egger in Basel in 1989: The missing mouthpipe inner slide with the upper ferrule and part of the cross stay were replaced. All silver parts were newly silver plated.
DimensionsTube length: 2677 mm
Slide length (original slide): 651 mm
Internal diameter inner slides: 9.4 mm
Bell diameter: 121 mm
Overall length: 1120 mm
Slide length (original slide): 651 mm
Internal diameter inner slides: 9.4 mm
Bell diameter: 121 mm
Overall length: 1120 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1990 from Ernst Buser, Basel, Switzerland.
Terms
Credit Line: Purchase funds gift of Clifford and LaVonne Graese, 1990
Not on view
Published ReferencesStewart Carter, "Early Trombones in America's Shrine to Music Museum," Historic Brass Society Journal 10 (1998), pp. 96-98, 108-109.
Object number: 04896