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Walking-stick trumpet, E-flat
Maker: John Webb
Date: 1992-1993
Place Made:London, England, Europe
Serial No: none
SignedStamped on brass-cartouche at bell: WEBB / LONDON
Markingsnone
DescriptionBrass; one narrow loop, bell bent 90 degrees to form a handle; no tuning slide.
Free adaptation of a walking stick trumpet, invented by Thomas Harper and manufactured by John Augustus Köhler in London, prior to February 1833. An original example of a walking stick trumpet by Köhler survives at the Royal College of Music in London (nr. 296).
Free adaptation of a walking stick trumpet, invented by Thomas Harper and manufactured by John Augustus Köhler in London, prior to February 1833. An original example of a walking stick trumpet by Köhler survives at the Royal College of Music in London (nr. 296).
DimensionsHeight: 945 mm
Tube length: 1825 mm
Bell diameter: 68 mm
Tube length: 1825 mm
Bell diameter: 68 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1993 from Scott Sorenson, Bloomington, 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. 232, 266.
Object number: 07084