Trumpet Marine (composite)
date: label: date made
content: 19th century
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This trumpet marine was made by an unknown maker, provenance unknown, probably 19th century. It is a composite instrument with a table of spruce with two C-holes, back of seven strips of slab-cut hardwood, grafted walnut neck terminated in a poplar cello pegbox and closed scroll with two volutes, and opaque brown varnish.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>The object is composed of unrelated fragments and does not appear to have ever functioned as a musical instrument in this form. However, the grafted neck bears an interesting 18th century violoncello pegbox and scroll fragment. Acquired from the collection of Leopoldo Franciolini in 1892.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Leopoldo Franciolini (1844–1920) was an Italian antique dealer who flourished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is remembered as a fraudster who sold faked and altered historical musical instruments.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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.095281
label: accession number
content: 26256
label: catalog number
content: 95281
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Trumpet Marine (composite instrument)
label: Object Name
content: trumpet marine (composite instrument)
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: spruce (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: hardwood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/8 in x 9 3/4 in x 63 1/2 in; 15.5575 cm x 24.765 cm x 161.29 cm