Flugelhorn, oval, B-flat
Alternate name(s)
- Kuhlohorn, B-flat
Distributor
August Clemens Glier
Date1890 ca.
Place MadeMarkneukirchen, Saxony, Germany, Europe
ModelFlügelhorn no. 28
Serial No.none
SignedEmbossed nickel-silver plaque at bell: AUG. CLEMENS GLIER / [eagle] / Markneukirchen I/S. / NEUE STRASSE 88.MarkingsStamped on lower valve caps, inner cover plates, and underside of touch pieces: 1
Stamped on first valve: one dot
Stamped on second valve: two dots
DescriptionBrass, German silver, S-shaped first loop followed by oval bell, tuning slide at first bow, three rotary valves (1, ½, 1½), horseshoe stop, clock-spring return.
This oval flugelhorn was listed as "Flugelhorn no. 28" in August Clemens Glier's Sonderliste P from about 1926. It is the same model as the "Trompete no. 17 ½" (see: NMM 6956), except that it has proper flugelhorn propotions with a wider bore and conical main tuning slide. However, the address Neue Str. 88, dates the instrument to a much earlier, before 1898 when the number was changed to Neue Str. 107, an address that existed until 1932.
DimensionsHeight: 320 mm
Tube length: 1294 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slides): 11.4 mm, 11.1 mm, 11–11.4 mm, 11.2 mm
Bell diameter: 146 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1990 from Fred Oster, Vintage Instruments, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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. 177-179, 181-182, 188, 304.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07001
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