Trumpet, F
Maker
A. G. Guichard
Date1835 ca.
Place MadeParis, France, Europe
Serial No.None
SignedStamped on bell: [crown, banners and shield] / Guichard Breveté, / A PARISMarkingsStamped on German-silver tag at receiver: FAStamped on receiver ferrule: BDescriptionBrass, double loop, tuning slide at second bow, two Stölzel valves (1, ½), screw alignment.
Typical early French Stölzel-valve trumpet, as depicted in George Kastner’s Manuel général de Musique militaire, Paris 1848, as “trompette à deux pistons.”DimensionsHeight: 377 mm
Tube length: 1786 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slide): 11.5 mm, 11.2 mm, 11.5 mm, 11.5 mm
Bell diameter: 138 mmProvenancePurchased in 1987 from Stewart and Lillian Caplin, New York, New York.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. 22.
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. 14-15, 27, 33, 50, 54-55, 293.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07090
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Adolphe Sax & Cie
1846-1854 ca.
