Horns and Trumpets of the World by Montagu Jeremy;

Author:Montagu, Jeremy; [Montagu, Jeremy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2014-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Figure 6.6. Two natural trumpets: long model by Boosey, London (IV 42), 1903, and Hungarian (III 196), before 1968.

It would be interesting to know, here and elsewhere in this book, what was “given out”; was it the separate yards that Villefranc put together into two instruments in sixteen hours, or was it just sheets of brass, or indeed just the order to make them? It shows also what wages were like in 1903—12 shillings and 8 pence, about 63 pence in modern English money, two and half U.S. dollars in 1903—for two days’ work by a skilled craftsman.

Dimensions: OL 680; tube L 1992; bell ∅ 134; mouthpipe ∅ 11.7; emb ∅ int 18.6, ext 28, depth 10, grain 5.5; pitch 7' E♭ at A = 452 Hz.

Arnold Myers says there are things that the archive does not make clear.18 Although standard components such as stays, the boxes into which lyres are fixed for marching bands, and similar components will have been issued to individual makers from stock, perhaps along with sheet brass and brass tubing, we do not know exactly how much work each did. “Given out” is likely to mean the date when the order was given from the sales office in Regent Street to the factory in Stanhope Place, but the date for “received” is sometimes before and sometimes after the dates for polishing, grinding, or plating. The fact that “plating” is not noted for this instrument suggests to him that it may have been sold as plain brass and that the player, or the regiment for which he played, had it silver plated later on. The date for “charged to Regent Street” is generally the same as the date “added to stock,” and is thus the date when all work on the instrument was finished. Thanks to the survival of this archive, now in the Horniman Museum in London, and the work that Myers and Kelly White have done on it, in place of the normal dating for instruments of “around 1900” or “between [one date] and [another],” for this instrument and its fellow (for two were made together) we have the very days they were made, 23–25 April 1903, and the date by which they were completely finished, 30 April 1903.

Beside it, on the right in figure 6.6, is a similar trumpet from Hungary, III 196, a fanfare trumpet in E♭, unmarked but made by Minségi Hangszerkészít és Javító Kisepari Termel, Szvetkezet, Budapest, a state conflation after the Communist takeover of all the local wind-instrument makers.19 It is of brass with white brass ferrules and stays, and there are two small banner rings on the bell yard. Like the previous trumpet, it is the normal long model, folded once round, but it is a little unusual in that it has a tuning slide in the front bow. I had an alternative D slide made for it by Bill Lewington, and the original E♭ slide seems to have vanished over the years. The trumpet was on

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