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Trumpet, F

Maker A. G. Guichard

Date1835 ca.

Place MadeParis, France, Europe

Serial No.none

SignedStamped on bell: [crown, banners and shield] / Guichard Breveté, / A PARIS
MarkingsStamped on German-silver tag at receiver: FA
Stamped on receiver ferrule: B
DescriptionBrass, double loop, tuning slide at second bow, two Stölzel valves (1, ½), screw alignment.

Typical early French Stölzel-valve trumpet, as depicted in George Kastner’s Manuel général de Musique militaire, Paris 1848, as “trompette à deux pistons.”
DimensionsHeight: 377 mm
Tube length: 1786 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slide): 11.5 mm, 11.2 mm, 11.5 mm, 11.5 mm
Bell diameter: 138 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1987 from Stewart and Lillian Caplin, New York, New York.
Published ReferencesSabine K. Klaus, “Metallblasinstrumente im Zeitalter des Erfindergeistes” in Valve Brass Music: 200 Jahre Ventilblasinstrumente, ed. by Conny Restle und Christian Breternitz (Berlin: Nicolai, 2014), p. 22.

Sabine Katharina Klaus, Trumpets and Other High Brass: A History Inspired by the Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection. Volume 3: Valves Evolve (Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 2017), pp. 14-15, 27, 33, 50, 54-55, 293.

Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999

Object number07090

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