Tenor trombone, B-flat
Maker
Johann Paul Franck
Date1744
Place MadeHildburghausen, Thuringia, Germany, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedStamped on bell garland: MACHT * IOHANN * PAULL * FRANCK * IN * HILDBURG * HAUSSEN * ANNO * 1744DescriptionBrass 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.
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
ProvenancePurchased in 1990 from Ernst Buser, Basel, Switzerland.
Published ReferencesStewart Carter, "Early Trombones in America's Shrine to Music Museum," Historic Brass Society Journal 10 (1998), pp. 96-98, 108-109.
Credit LinePurchase funds gift of Clifford and LaVonne Graese, 1990
Object number04896
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