Trumpet, B-flat
Date1962
Place MadeSaxony, Europe
Serial No.4595
SignedStamped on bell: KCHX / N 4595 1962 r.Markingsnone
DescriptionBrass, originally silver-plated (now mostly worn off), double loop, narrow conical main tuning slide at third bow, three mechanical-linkage rotary valves (1, ½, 1½), horseshoe stop, clock-spring return (no regulating device), single water key at first bow, windway 1-2-3.
Silver-plated brass mouthpiece, stamped: 11
Common Saxon rotary-valve trumpet model, as sold, for example, by Ferdinand Glier & Son in Klingenthal as early as about 1867.
DimensionsHeight: 350 mm
Tube length: 1275 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum): 11 mm, 9.2 mm
Bell diameter: 123 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1991 from a street vendor, Moscow, Russia.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07048
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