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Trumpet, B-flat
Maker: Andreas Barth
Date: 1835-1837 ca.
Place Made:Munich, Bavaria, Germany, Europe
Serial No: none
SignedEngraved on garland: A. Barth in München
MarkingsStamped on receiver ferrule: crown
DescriptionSingle loop, no tuning slide, two double-piston valves (½, 1), long handles and flat spring (Bavarian type).
Brass mouthpiece contemporary with the instrument.
Crown stamp on receiver ferrule may indicate that this trumpet was part of the Bavarian court orchestra in Munich.
Brass mouthpiece contemporary with the instrument.
Crown stamp on receiver ferrule may indicate that this trumpet was part of the Bavarian court orchestra in Munich.
DimensionsHeight: 459 mm
Tube length: 1226 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, valve slide): 11.8 mm, 9.8 mm, 10.4 mm
Bell diameter: 115 mm
Tube length: 1226 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, valve slide): 11.8 mm, 9.8 mm, 10.4 mm
Bell diameter: 115 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1992 form Tony Bingham, London, England.
Terms
Credit Line: Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Not on view
Published ReferencesJoe R. Utley and Sabine K. Klaus, “The ‘Catholic Fingering’ – First Valve Semitone: Reversed Valve Order in Brass Instruments and Related Valve Constructions,” Historic Brass Society Journal, 15 (2003), p. 75.
Sabine K. Klaus, “Trumpet in B-flat by Andreas Barth,” International Trumpet Guild Journal June 2005, p. 63.
-------. “Metallblasinstrumente im Zeitalter des Erfindergeistes” in Valve Brass Music: 200 Jahre Ventilblasinstrumente, ed. by Conny Restle und Christian Breternitz (Berlin: Nicolai, 2014), p. 24, 140.
Valve Magazine, Summer 2006, Vol. 18, No. 3, p. 1.
Sabine 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. 71-73, 79, 106-107, 298.
Sabine K. Klaus, “Trumpet in B-flat by Andreas Barth,” International Trumpet Guild Journal June 2005, p. 63.
-------. “Metallblasinstrumente im Zeitalter des Erfindergeistes” in Valve Brass Music: 200 Jahre Ventilblasinstrumente, ed. by Conny Restle und Christian Breternitz (Berlin: Nicolai, 2014), p. 24, 140.
Valve Magazine, Summer 2006, Vol. 18, No. 3, p. 1.
Sabine 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. 71-73, 79, 106-107, 298.
Object number: 07058