Pollter Tenor Valve Trombone
Pollter Tenor Valve Trombone
- Description (Brief)
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This trombone was made by Otto Pollter in Leipzig, Germany, late 1890s. It is a tenor valve trombone made of brass and German silver. There are Decorative snakes on the end of slide. This trombone is engraved:
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O. Pollter & Co.
Leipzig -
This trombone was previously owned and used by trombonist Edward A. Williams, who purchased this trombone in Leipzig in 1900. Williams was a member the Sousa Band, 1892-1917.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- trombone
- Date made
- late 1890s
- user
- Williams, Edward A.
- referenced
- Sousa, John Philip
- maker
- Otto Pollter & Co.
- place made
- Germany: Saxony, Leipzig
- Physical Description
- brass (overall material)
- german silver (overall material)
- Measurements
- bell: 24 5/16 in x 10 7/8 in x 8 7/8 in; 61.75375 cm x 27.6225 cm x 22.5425 cm
- mouthpiece: 3 1/2 in x 1 9/16 in; 8.89 cm x 3.96875 cm
- slide: 37 1/2 in x 5 5/16 in x 7/8 in; 95.25 cm x 13.49375 cm x 2.2225 cm
- ID Number
- 1994.0273.01
- accession number
- 1994.0273
- catalog number
- 1994.0273.01
- Credit Line
- Gift of Catherine W. and Jerome E. Henderson
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Musical Instruments
- Music & Musical Instruments
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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