Natural trumpet, D
Maker
John Webb
Date1990
Place MadeLondon, England, Europe
Serial No.155
SignedStamped on brass-cartouche at bell: WEBB / LONDONMarkingsStamped on first yard with coil: 155
DescriptionBrass; garland with straight upper edge and embossed scallop shells, four cast angel's heads and four rock crystals; Nuremberg rim, wire embossed with stripes and dots; ball gold-plated; helical-fluting ferrules.
Free copy of the J. W. Haas trumpet from 1694 with coils in the yards and bows at the Musical Instrument Museum in Brussels (no. 470).
DimensionsHeight: 545 mm
Tube length: 2270 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum): 12.0 mm, 11.2 mm
Bell diameter: 108 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1990 from Scott Sorenson, Burnsville, Minnesota.
Published ReferencesKlaus, Sabine Katharina. Trumpets and Other High Brass: A History Inspired by the Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection. Volume 1: Instruments of the Single Harmonic Series (Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 2012), pp. 256, 261.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number06997
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