End-blown trumpet
Date1850-1900 ca.
Place MadeRajasthan, India, Asia
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DescriptionBrass with painted geometric and floral decoration in red and yellow (original paint remnants restored); three telescoping sections; bosses at the joints filled with rattling material; integral mouthpiece, copper sheet pressed into cup-shape, folded over top edge of first section and soldered to it.
The kanā is played in festivals, weddings and processions in the damāi bājā ensemble together with the curved trumpet (narsĩgā), and an oboe and kettledrum.
DimensionsHeight/Tube length: 1733 mm
Height collapsed: ca. 800 mm
External diameter sections: 23-34 mm/ 35-47 mm/ 51-96 mm
Bell diameter: 309 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1997 from Manglam Arts, Jaipur, India.
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. 52–53, 282.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07211
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