End-blown trumpet
Vernacular Name
- Rkang-gling
Date1900 ca.
Place MadeChina, Asia
Place DistributedTibet, Asia
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SignednoneMarkingsnone
DescriptionCloisonné with turquoise-colored background and blue, red, white, green, yellow, and pink fantasy creatures; cast dragon’s head bell, gold-painted; three-piece curved tubing, the visible cloisonné tube encloses another conical brass tube that starts with a very narrow bore at the mouthpiece throat, and widens conically to meet the diameter at the beginning of the bell; fixed cup-shaped mouthpiece.
Compared with NMM 7321 and NMM 7322, the present instrument shows much poorer workmanship. It was produced in China for the Tibetan market, likely as a decoration piece rather than for musical use.
DimensionsOverall length (straight): ca. 430 mm
Tube length: 440 mm
External diameter (smallest, largest): 23 mm, 29 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1998 from E. & J. Frankel, New York, New York.
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. 16-17, 274.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07323
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