Mechanical slide trumpet, F, E
Maker
Charles Pace
Date1835 ca.
Place MadeLondon, England, Europe
ModelShort model
Serial No.none
SignedStamped on garland in raised letters: C. PACE / LONDON / MAKERMarkingsnoneDescriptionBrass, double loop, compression-spring slide. Repoussé decoration on garland and ferrules includes British royal flowers thistle, shamrock, and rose, musical instruments and weapons. Crook for E; deep-funnel-shaped brass mouthpiece.
Typical short model slide trumpet with compression-spring. Because of the more compact shape, such trumpets were very suitable for military use.
DimensionsHeight: 352 mm
Tube length: 1720 mm/ 1899 mm
Bore diameter (initial, mininmum): 11.8 mm, 11 mm
Slide bore diameter 11.1 mm
Bell diameter: 112 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1997 from Tony Bingham, London, England.
Published ReferencesSabine K. Klaus, "Slide trumpet (short model) in D by Charles Pace, London, ca. 1840," International Trumpet Guild Journal, October 2002, p. 66.
Sabine Katharina Klaus, Trumpets and Other High Brass, volume 2: Ways to Expand the Harmonic Series (Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 2013), pp. 27-29, 182, 249.
-------. “Die englische Klappentrompete: Eine Neueinschätzung,” in: Romantic Brass. Ein Blick zurück ins 19. Jahrhundert, ed. by Claudio Bacchiagaluppi and Martin Skamletz. Musikforschung der Hochschule der Künste Bern, vol. 4 (Schliengen: Edition Argus, 2015), p. 236
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07305
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