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Description: | 'Clippertone' jazz and session trumpet. The narrow tubing on this instrument gives it a clear and penetrating tone ideal for jazz and big band performers. Its 'quick change' mechanism (the round valve to the right of the three main valves on the photograph) also made it popular with theatre musicians. In the 19th century, players were often expected to alternate between differently sized trumpets. The quick change system meant that the music for A and B flat trumpets could be played on the same instrument, making it useful in cramped orchestra pits. Gilbert and Sullivan's operettas, many of which were associated with the Savoy Theatre on the Strand, were amongst the works performed in the 1920s with quick change trumpets. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum, London | Subjects: | work Leisure | Temporal: | 1925 | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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