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Trumpet, B-flat
Trumpet, B-flat
Trumpet, B-flat

Trumpet, B-flat

Date1906-1913 ca.
Place MadeMarkneukirchen, Saxony, Germany, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedEngraved on bell: Musikhaus / Heinr. Moritz Schuster / Markneukirchen
MarkingsStamped on first valve cap: DEUTSCHE QUALITÄTSMASCHINE
Stamped on valve cases and horseshoe stops: 10, 11, 12
Stamped on support brace of coil spring return: 4
DescriptionBrass, German silver, single loop, tuning slide at first bow, three rotary valves (1, ½, 1½), horseshoe stop, Leipzig spiral-spring return.

Brass mouthpiece; two tuning bits.

Heinrich Moritz Schuster’s shop was founded in 1871 as string instrument maker and dealer in Markneukirchen. By 1890-1891, Schuster was among the leading masters of the “vogtländische Blasinstrumentenmacher-Innung,” the local wind-instrument-maker’s guild. The wording in the signature dates this trumpet to a time after December 21, 1906, when the firm changed its name to Musikhaus Heinr. Moritz Schuster, and 1913, when brass instrument production was terminated.
DimensionsHeight: 463 mm
Tube length: 1315 mm, 1391 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slides): 11.2 mm, 11.1 mm, 11 mm, 11–11.1 mm
Bore diameter tuning bits (initial, minimum): 10.5 mm, 9.6 mm
Bell diameter: 136 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1983 from David Miles, London, England.
Published ReferencesSabine K. Klaus, “Metallblasinstrumente im Zeitalter des Erfindergeistes” in Valve Brass Music: 200 Jahre Ventilblasinstrumente, ed. by Conny Restle und Christian Breternitz (Berlin: Nicolai, 2014), p. 34.

Sabine Katharina Klaus, Trumpets and Other High Brass: A History Inspired by the Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection. Volume 3: Valves Evolve (Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 2017), pp. 151, 155-156, 170-171, 303.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number06770
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