Trumpet, B-flat
Date1890-1910 ca.
Place MadeGraslitz, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, Europe
Place MadeMarkneukirchen, Saxony, Germany, Europe
Serial No.none
SignednoneMarkingsStamped on bell: 3 P [?] S.S.C.S. [owner’s or band identification?]
Stamped on valve parts: 3
DescriptionBrass, German silver, single loop, tuning slide at first bow, three rotary valves (1, ½, 1½), three-point-wing device, one stop pin, clock-spring return.
Typical German-style rotary-valves trumpet. At the beginning of the 20th century, the majority of instruments of this type were manufactured in Markneukirchen (Saxony) and Graslitz (Bohemia).
DimensionsHeight: 444 mm
Tube length: 1295 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slides): 11.2 mm, 10.9 mm, 10.5 mm, 10.6 mm
Bell diameter: 118 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1986 from George Borodi, Cleveland, Ohio.
Published ReferencesSabine Katharina Klaus, Trumpets and Other High Brass: A History Inspired by the Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection. Volume 3: Valves Evolve (Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 2017), pp. 155, 170-171, 303.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number06893
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1885-1895 ca.
