End-blown trumpet
Date1900-1950 ca.
Place MadeRajasthan, India, Asia
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DescriptionBrass, copper, painted with geometric and floral decoration in red, yellow, and blue (restoration based on original paint remnants); bosses at joints filled with rattling material; integral mouthpiece (copper sheet pressed into cup-shape, folded over the edge of an inverted conical brass tube, inserted brass tube inside serves as throat).
In central Rajasthan, the bānkiā is played principally by professional musicians (Sargara). It is used for wedding celebrations and other festivities, or to accompany dances. The single-looped tube arrangement of the bānkiā is influenced by the European trumpet, but deviates from it in the shape of its bell.
DimensionsHeight: ca. 890 mm
Tube length: 1830 mm
Bell diameter 226 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1997 from Manglam Arts, Jaipur, India.
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. 53, 282.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07208
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