Keyed trumpet, F
Maker
Joseph Greenhill
Date1829-1836 ca.
Place MadeLondon, England, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedEngraved on silver plate at bell: Jos Greenhill / 18 Little Britain / LONDONMarkingsnone
DescriptionBrass, silver nameplate, double loop, three keys for the right hand, one open key (lowering the pitch by a semitone) and two closed keys (raising the pitch by a semitone and a whole tone); no tuning slide.
Greenhill was listed in 1835 as “professor and manufacturer of the Royal Kent Bugle.” The present instrument was built between 1829 and 1843, when Greenhill was active at 18 Little Britain in London. It combines features of the keyed trumpet (predominantly cylindrical tubing and lower pitch) and the keyed bugle (key system with open-standing lowest key).
DimensionsHeight: 335 mm
Tube length: 1811 m
Bore diameter: 10 mm
Bell diameter: 116 mm
Keyhole position (from bell end): 113 mm, 252 mm, 351 mm
Keyhole diameter: 22 mm, 12.5 mm, 10 mm
Published ReferencesSabine K. Klaus, "Keyed Trumpet in F by Joseph Greenhill" in "Historical Instrument Window," Edward H. Tarr, editor, International Trumpet Guild Journal, Vol. 27, No. 2 (January 2003), p. 55.
-------. 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), pp. 176, 182–84, 187–88, 257.
-------. “Die englische Klappentrompete: Eine Neueinschätzung,” in: Romantic Brass. Ein Blick zurück ins 19. Jahrhundert, ed. by Claudio Bacchiagaluppi and Martin Skamletz. Musikforschung der Hochschule der Künste Bern, vol. 4 (Schliengen: Edition Argus, 2015), pp. 233-234.
Roland Callmar, Die chromatisierte Trompete. Die Entwicklung der Naturtrompete bis zur Einführung der Ventiltrompete 1750 – 1850. Diplomarbeit im Fach Barocktrompete für das Diplom für alte Musik, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Basel (Büron: Roland Callmar, 2003), 78-79, 278.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07161
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