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End-blown trumpet
Vernacular name:Śringa
Date: 1900-1950 ca.
Place Made:Nepal, Asia
Place Made:South India, Asia
Serial No: none
SignedThere seems to be a signature painted in black on the bell (not yet identified).
Markingsnone
DescriptionCopper, painted with geometric and flame decoration in red, yellow and black; four sections; integral funnel-shaped mouthpiece is part of the first section.
DimensionsHeight: ca. 600 mm
Tube length: 719 mm
External diameter sections: 13-27 mm/30-35 mm/37-40 mm/44-73 mm
Tube length: 719 mm
External diameter sections: 13-27 mm/30-35 mm/37-40 mm/44-73 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1997, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Terms
Credit Line: Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Not on view
Published Referenceslaus, 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. 53–54, 282.
Object number: 07201