Büchsentrompete, E-flat
Maker
Robert Barclay
Date1997
Place MadeOttawa, 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.
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.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07260
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