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End-blown trumpet
Vernacular name:Karnā
Date: 1850-1900 ca.
Place Made:Rajasthan, India, Asia
Serial No: none
Signednone
Markingsnone
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 kana is played in festivals, weddings and processions in the damai baja ensemble together with the curved trumpet (narsiga), and an oboe and kettledrum.
The kana is played in festivals, weddings and processions in the damai baja ensemble together with the curved trumpet (narsiga), 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
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.
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. 52–53, 282.
Object number: 07211