Slide trumpet (flat trumpet), D
Maker
John Webb
Date1993
Place MadeLondon, England, Europe
Modelflat trumpet
Serial No.116
SignedEngraved on silver badge at garland: WEBB / LONDONMarkingsStamped on ferrule and garland: SILVER
Stamped on bellpipe: 116
DescriptionBrass, silver trim, chrome slide; garland with floral decoration in repoussé; tuning slide at leadpipe, fixed with wing screw; long slide at back bow with one male and one female slide.
Bent brass tuning shank; silver mouthpiece stamped "WEBB."
Reconstruction of a flat trumpet after James Talbot's manuscript (ca. 1690-1700) at Christ Church Library in Oxford (Mus 1187). The tuning slide at the leadpipe is inspired by a screw adjustment, suggested in Roger North's Cursery Notes on Music (ca. 1698-1703).
This type of flat trumpet was used by Henry Purcell in The Libertine and the Funeral March for Queen Mary.
DimensionsHeight: 960 mm
Tube length: 2176 mm
Slide (total length): 1119 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum): 12 mm, 10.9 mm
Bore diameter slide: 11.5 mm
Bell diameter: 116 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1993 from Scott Sorenson, Bloomington, Minnesota.
Published ReferencesKlaus, Sabine Katharina. 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. 11–12, 250.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07082
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