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NMM 7161. Keyed Trumpet in F by Joseph Greenhill, London, ca. 1830
Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 2003
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Three-piece (two cylindrical segments and bell),
double-loop, brass body; brass garland, ferrules, and keys. Delicate,
overlapping tab
seam (width of tabs 2 mm). Saxon
rim, iron wire insert. Receiver ferrule with eight engraved lines,
other ferrules with four engraved lines. Flat, round key heads with
beige leather pads (old); brass tone-hole rims soldered to body; keys
pivot in brass saddles with guiding nose; brass leaf springs.
Shape of saddle with key guiding nose:
Three keys in the following order: E (open key,
little finger/right hand); F-sharp (closed key, ring finger/right), G
(closed key, index finger/right)
Accessories: none
Sounding length: 1811 mm (E-key closed) and
1698 mm (E-key open); internal diameter receiver: 10 mm; bell
diameter: 116 mm.
Joseph Greenhill is listed as "Professor and manufacturer
of the Royal Kent Bugle" in the London address book of 1835. While
other instruments by him that survive are indeed keyed bugles (for
example, in the Royal College of Music, London, no. 326 BS/2), this
instrument is a hybrid. It is double-folded, like
a trumpet, and in eight-foot pitch (not an octave higher, like the
keyed bugle). It has a typical trumpet bell shape. However, when played,
it is held like a keyed bugle, not horizontally like a keyed trumpet
of the Austrian type. With the lowest key open, the trumpet is pitched
in F; closing the key lowers the pitch to E-flat.
Signature
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Engraved on silver plaque on bell: Jos Greenhill / 18 Little Britain / LONDON
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Lit.: Sabine Klaus, "Keyed Trumpet in F by Joseph
Greenhill" in "Historical Instrument Window," Edward H. Tarr, editor, International Trumpet Guild Journal, Vol. 27,
No. 2 (January 2003), p. 55.
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The University of South Dakota
414 East Clark Street
Vermillion, SD 57069
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