Natural trumpet, D
Maker
Johann Wilhelm Haas
Date1710-1720 ca.
Place MadeNuremberg, Germany, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedEngraved on bell garland: IOHANN / WILHELM / HAAS / NURNBERGMarkingsMaster’s mark with initials engraved on bell garland: [leaping hare looking forward, facing left] IWH
DescriptionBrass; bell garland with serrated upper edge with scallop shell decoration, applied cast angel's heads; Nuremberg rim, rolled wire with leaf-and-dot pattern; helical-fluting ferrules; cast ball with three male heads, two with pointed and one with broad headgear, representing the three Magi.
Decoration details indicate that this trumpet was built in the middle period of J. W. Haas’s career.
DimensionsHeight: 727 mm
Tube length: 2180 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum): 11.7 mm, 10.9 mm
Bell diameter: 112 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1997 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. 90, 97-100, 102, 104, 108, 110, 113, 116, 125-27, 130-31, 133, 148, 260; Volume 2: Ways to Expand the Harmonic Series (Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 2013), pp. 150, 152.
-------. “More Thoughts on the Discipline of Organology,” Historic Brass Society Journal, Vol. 14, 2002, p. 5.
-------. Haas & Haas. A Miniature Horn and a Natural Trumpet from the most famous Nürnberg Workshop,” America’s Shrine to Music Museum News 28, no. 2 (May 2001), pp. 4-5.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07212
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