Single-slide trumpet, D
Maker
John Webb
Date1990
Place MadeLondon, England, Europe
Serial No.T 55
SignedStamped on cartouche at bell: WEBB / LONDONMarkingsStamped on slide: T 55 (?)
DescriptionBrass body, chrome slide; single slide at mouthpipe.
Copy of a German single-slide trumpet (inspired by the single-slide trumpet by Huns Veit, Naumburg, 1651, Musikinstrumentenmuseum Berlin, cat. no. 639)
DimensionsHeight: 708 mm
Tube length: 2187 mm
Slide length (total): 640 mm
Bore diameter (initial instrument, slide): 12.1 mm; 11 mm
Bell diameter: 106 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1990 from Scott Sorenson, Burnsville, Minnesota.
Published ReferencesKlaus, Sabine Katharina. Trumpets and Other High Brass: A History Inspired by the Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection. Volume 2: Ways to Expand the Harmonic Series (Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 2013), pp. 9–10, 249.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number06994
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