Beyde Bass Tuba
date: label: date made
content: 1835 - 1865
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This tuba was made by August Beyde in Vienna, Austria, around 1835-1865. It is a bass tuba in F, made of brass, in an ophicleide form with 3 Viennese-Uhlmann style double piston valves. This instrument is inscribed</p>
label: Description
content: <p>August Beyde In Wien</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Leopold Uhlmann apprenticed with his father, Johann, in Vienna and studied horn at the Vienna Conservatory. Uhlmann received a patent for his improvements for double piston valves in 1830. He made instruments until his death in 1878, and his firm was continued by his son until about 1900.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Austria: Vienna
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Densmore, Frances. Handbook of the Collection of Musical Instruments in the United States National Museum.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.095273
label: accession number
content: 26256
label: catalog number
content: 95273
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tuba
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 47 1/4 in x 15 1/4 in x 10 5/8 in; 120.015 cm x 38.735 cm x 26.9875 cm