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Baritone, C, B-flat
Baritone, C, B-flat
Baritone, C, B-flat

Baritone, C, B-flat

Date1900 ca.
Place MadeBraunau, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedEngraved on German-silver plaque at bell: Wenzel John / Instrumenten = Erzeuger / zu / Braunau i/Böhmen.
MarkingsStamped on clock-spring action support bar, valve cases, inner cover plates, and inside of lower valve caps: 47
Stamped on lower valve caps: 1 (first valve), 2 (second valve), and 3 (third valve).
DescriptionBrass, German silver, oval, double loop, curved upright bell, tuning slide after valve section, curved leadpipe usable with and without crook, three rotary valves (1, ½, 1½), three-point-wing device, one stop pin, clock-spring return.

Crook for B-flat.

Franz Wenzel John established a workshop in Braunau, Bohemia, in 1878. He is listed in directories until 1930.
DimensionsHeight: ca. 645 mm
Tube length: 2300 mm, 2585 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slides): 12.7 mm, 12.1 mm, 12.5–13.3 mm, 12.5 mm
Mid-bore diameter: 21.7 mm
Bore diameter crook (initial, minimum): 12.4 mm, 11.3 mm
Bell diameter: 196 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1997 from Fred Oster, Vintage Instruments, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Published ReferencesSabine 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. 194-196, 198-199, 306.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07217
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