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Natural trumpet, D
Maker: John Webb
Date: 1990
Place Made:London, England, Europe
Serial No: 155
SignedStamped on brass-cartouche at bell: WEBB / LONDON
MarkingsStamped 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).
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
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.
Terms
Credit Line: Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Not on view
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.
Object number: 06997