Getzen B-Flat Slide Trumpet
date: label: date made
content: 1963
name: label: maker
content: Getzen Company, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This trumpet was made by Getzen Company, Inc. in Elkhorn, Wisconsin in 1963. It is a B-flat slide trumpet made of brass and nickel plate. This instrument is really a soprano trombone but sold as a slide trumpet by the manufacturer. It is engraved:</p>
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content: <p>GETZEN<br>ELKHORN<br>-WIS-</p>
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content: <p>A 1959 Getzen advertisement for this instrument, with the endorsement of American jazz trumpeter Bobby Hackett indicates, “Cornet players…trumpet players…trombone players…beginners too - for those new effects that are impossible with any other instrument, get this sensational musical instrument, same true tone as ANY trumpet, with full range and accurate A-440 pitch. Ruggedly built of brass, polished and lacquered, Getzen-guaranteed…Easy to play-learn quickly with furnished instruction book.</p>
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content: <p>Same slide principle as standard trombone, with slide positions plainly marked on outside slide. Lightning action, tunable, any mouthpiece fits. At music dealers, or write us.”</p>
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content: <p>This instrument originally sold for $19.95.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Wisconsin, Elkhorn
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Trumpets
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Getzen Co., Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.66.152
label: catalog number
content: 66.152
label: accession number
content: 263102
objectType: label: Object Name
content: trumpet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: nickel silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 1/4 in x 4 3/4 in x 6 1/2 in; 46.355 cm x 12.065 cm x 16.51 cm
label: Measurements
content: trumpet: 4 9/16 in x 6 1/8 in x 18 3/8 in; 11.58875 cm x 15.5575 cm x 46.6725 cm
label: Measurements
content: mouthpiece: 3 1/2 in x 1 1/16 in; 8.89 cm x 2.69875 cm