Valve trumpet, nominal pitch: F etc

Charles Pace

Instrument

Valve trumpet

Instrument Family

Wind

Maker

Charles Pace

Place Made

United Kingdom; London; Europe; England

Date Made

Circa 1840

Description

2 valves. Technical description: Brass, high-arched distal bow; semicircular proximal bow on tuning-slide. Three-part ball with groove. Distinctive design of mouthpiece receiver ferrule, matches various crooks. With four brass single-coil crooks and three brass bits, one of them curved. Valve type: 2 finger-slide valves: modification of the Stölzel valve with both ends of the valve casing forming part of the windway; the piston controlled by a touchpiece working in a parallel section of tubing containing the spring with a connecting piece passing through a slot in the side of the valve casing; the windway is diverted through one of two loops on the side of the valve casing, the shorter loop of the two when the valve is not operated and the longer when it is. Overall size: 554; bell 109. Sounding length: instrument without shank or crook, minimum 1752; with D crook, minimum 1920; overall air column length of crooks and bits: (a) 177; (b) 255; (c) 398; (d) 676; (e) 30.3; (f) 48, curved; (g) 49. Bore: minimum bore, 10.35; at 960mm from bell end, c 10.35; at 876mm from bell end, c 11.0; v.t.s. bore 11.0; m.t.s. bore 11.2; at c 210mm from bell end, 14.6; at c 198mm from bell end, 15.6; at 13.0mm from bell end, 69.5. B = 0.76 (in F); B = 0.73 (in D). Bell cutoff = 1400 Hz. Dia of mouthpiece receiver: taper on instrument body to receive crooks, bits or mouthpiece m.r.t. 12.0 - 11.2 Decorative features: Embossed bell garland and ball with rose, thistle, shamrock and foliage motifs; applied decorative embossed sleeves, one on mouthpipe and two on main bow, with floral, foliage and military motifs. Signature marks: Inscribed on oval silver plate on bell: "IMPROVED / & MADE BY / CHAS. PACE. / 49 KING ST. / WESTMINSTER". Performance characteristics: The input impedance and harmonicity of the air-column resonances are reported in Myers and Campbell 2006. Usable pitch: Plays 40 cents above A⁴ 440 Hz. Playing accessories: Crooks for E, Eb, D and C; three tuning bits. Lent with, possibly formerly used with and possibly supplied by manufacturer with mouthpiece (3287). Specific literature references: Blaikley et al. 1900, item C308; Day 1891, item 386; Galpin, Hill et al. 1909, p.206. Illustration references: Borland 1906, Fig. 107; World Wide Web picture at http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/euchmi/

Notes

R. Parks, 13.3.93.

Measurements

554; bell 109.

Provenance

Collected by Colonel T.B. Shaw-Hellier (1836-1910).; on loan to the Collection.

Collection

Shaw-Hellier Collection; MIMEd

Accession Number

3286