Hörth B-Flat Trumpet
date: label: date made
content: 1913
name: label: maker
content: Hörth, Franz
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This trumpet was made by Franz Hörth in Saarbrücken, Germany in 1913. It is a B-flat trumpet made of brass with nickel silver trim and has three mechanical rotary valves. This trumpet is engraved:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Franz Horth Saarbrucken. Jager Regt. z. Pferde No.8 1913</p>
label: Description
content: <p>According to the accession paperwork, this trumpet was one of 12 instruments captured from the Jäger-Regiment zu Pferde Nr. 8 (Eighth Jaeger German Mounted Band) during WWI.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Franz Hörth (also spelled Hoerth) (1862-1932) founded his musical instrument firm in what was known as St. Johann in 1898. This small fishing village merged with two other villages to form Saarbrücken around 1909. Hörth’s son-in-law Richard Wolff became manager of the company around 1921, then known as “Franz Hoerth, metal and wood instrument maker, musical instruments and talking machines."</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Saarland, Saarbrücken
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Military
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content: Trumpets
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.039585
label: catalog number
content: 39585
label: accession number
content: 136683
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: 17 in x 5 1/4 in x 8 in; 43.18 cm x 13.335 cm x 20.32 cm
label: Measurements
content: bell: 5 1/4 in; 13.335 cm
label: Measurements
content: air column: 52 in; 132.08 cm