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End-blown trumpet
Vernacular name:Rkang-gling
Date: 1900 ca.
Place Made:China, Asia
Place Distributed:Tibet, Asia
Serial No: none
Signednone
Markingsnone
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.
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
Tube length: 440 mm
External diameter (smallest, largest): 23 mm, 29 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1998 from E. & J. Frankel, New York, New York.
Terms
Credit Line: Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Not on view
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.
Object number: 07323