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Büchsentrompete, E-flat

Büchsentrompete, E-flat

Date: 1997
Place Made:Ottawa, Canada, North America
Serial No: 61
SignedEngraved on top of box: MACHT ◊ ROBT ◊ BARCLAI IN ◊ OTTW ◊
MarkingsEngraved on bell: 61
DescriptionBrass; tubing arranged in eight helical coils, normally covered and concealed by a conical box.

Copy of a Büchsentrompete by Adam Buchschwinder, Ellwangen, 1731, at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nürnberg, MI 205.
DimensionsHeight: 180 mm
Tube length: ca. 2050 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum): 11.8 mm, 11.2 mm
Bell diameter: 108 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1997 from Robert Barclay, Gloucester, Ontario, Canada.
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. 182-83, 257, 265.
Object number: 07260