Vincent Bach B-Flat Trumpet
name: label: maker
content: Vincent Bach Corporation
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>This trumpet was made by Vincent Bach Corporation in Elkhardt, Indiana in 1965. It is a B-flat trumpet, serial number 31291, made of brass and nickel silver, and has three piston valves with mother-of-pearl finger buttons. This trumpet is engraved:</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>Stradivarius<br>Model 37<br>Vincent Bach<br>Corporation<br>Elkhardt, Ind.<br>U.S.A.</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>Vincent Bach (1890-1976), born Vincent Schrotenbach, was an Austrian musician and brass instrument maker. In 1914, Bach emigrated to the United States, where he performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Metropolitan Opera and continued to play through 1926.</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>With an investment of $300, Bach started making mouthpieces in 1918, and by 1924 expanded his business making trumpets, cornets, and later trombones. In 1961, Bach sold his firm to the Selmer Company, which acquired his tooling and machinery and continued making his instruments with his original designs and blueprints.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Indiana, Elkhart
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of H. & A. Selmer, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.66.143
label: catalog number
content: 66.143
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: 19 in x 4 3/4 in x 6 in; 48.26 cm x 12.065 cm x 15.24 cm
label: Measurements
content: case: 6 1/8 in x 21 1/4 in x 13 in; 15.5575 cm x 53.975 cm x 33.02 cm
label: Measurements
content: trumpet: 5 in x 6 7/8 in x 19 1/4 in; 12.7 cm x 17.4625 cm x 48.895 cm
label: Measurements
content: mouthpiece: 2 7/16 in x 1 in; 6.19125 cm x 2.54 cm