End-blown trumpet
Vernacular Name
- Rkang-gling
Date1960 ca.
Place MadeTibet, Asia
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SignednoneMarkingsnone
DescriptionCopper alloy, partly painted with brass and German-silver color. Bell shaped like a human femur, each of the condyles with a hole; light-brown stone, mounted in a dotted brass ring; ring with eyelet for carrying sling. Repoussé geometric ornaments and tendrils; shallow-cup fixed mouthpiece made of a copper disc pressed into shape with irregular hole, no backbore.
Made for the tourist market.
DimensionsOverall length (straight): ca. 370 mm
Tube length: 395 mm
External diameter (smallest, largest): 28 mm, 42 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1993, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysai.
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), p. 275.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07095
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