Trumpet, F
Maker
James Keat
Distributor
Graves & Co.
Date1837-1842 ca.
Place MadeWinchester, New Hampshire, United States, North America
Serial No.none
SignedEngraved on garland: J. KEAT / for Graves & Co. / Winchester N. H.MarkingsEngraved on inner slide of first valve: FBBF 6
DescriptionBrass, double loop, tuning slide at second bow, two Stölzel valves (1, ½), spring in barrel.
James Keat, the third son of well-known London brass instrument maker Samuel Keat, moved to Winchester, N.H., and in 1837 purchased half of the second floor of the building which Graves & Co. occupied. He then worked on commission for Graves until 1842, initiating the firm's valve-brass production. This trumpet is the only American-made Stölzel-valve trumpet known to date.
DimensionsHeight: 445 mm
Tube length: 1797 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slide): 12 mm, 11 mm, 11.2 mm, 10.8–11.2 mm
Bell diameter: 116 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1994 from Steve Dillon, Sayreville, New Jersey.
Published ReferencesRobert E. Eliason, Graves & Company. Musical Instrument Makers (Dearborn, Michigan: Edison Institute, 1975), p. 10, photo 13.
-------, “Bugles Beyond Compare: The Presentation E-flat Keyed Bugle in Mid-Nineteenth-Century,” Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society, XXXI (2005), 76.
Sabine Katharina Klaus, “Trumpet by James Keat” in: “Historical Instrument Window,” ITG Journal, Vol. 28, no. 1, October 2003, p. 76.
-------, Trumpets and Other High Brass: A History Inspired by the Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection. Volume 2: Ways to Expand the Harmonic Series (Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 2013), p. 225.
-------, “Metallblasinstrumente im Zeitalter des Erfindergeistes” in Valve Brass Music: 200 Jahre Ventilblasinstrumente, ed. by Conny Restle und Christian Breternitz (Berlin: Nicolai, 2014), p. 22.
-------, 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. 18-20, 50, 54-55, 293.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07098
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