Natural trumpet, E-flat
Maker
Franz Joseph Stöhr
Date1825-30 ca.
Place MadePrague, Czechoslovakia, Europe
Place MadePrague, Bohemia, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedStamped on bell garland: [double eagle with crown] Franz Stöhr in Prag [double eagle with crown]Markingsnone
DescriptionBrass; garland with straight upper edge and impressed pattern; Nuremberg rim, broad rolled strip with hatched decoration; ferrules with engraved lines.
The activity of Franz Stöhr (1800-1876) falls into the transitional period during which natural trumpets gave way to valve trumpets. The Prague conservatory was one of the earliest schools where the valve trumpet was taught by the hornist and trumpet professor Joseph Kail (1795-1871). Kail wrote the first solo work for valve trumpet in 1827. Natural trumpets continued to be used long after the valve trumpet had been developed.
DimensionsHeight: 642 mm
Tube length: 1929 mm
Bore diameter (intitial, minimum): 11.2 mm, 10.8 mm
Bell diameter: 124 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1994 from Tony Bingham, London, England.
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. 185-87, 243, 271. Volume 2: Ways to Expand the Harmonic Series (Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 2013), pp. 163, 176.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07099
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