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74 HISTORIC BRASS SOCIETY JOURNAL Figure 2 Signature of the trumpet by Gentner (Utley/NMM, 6821. Photo: Mark Olencki). For many years it was a curiosity. If handed to accomplished players to blow a few notes, it would befuddle them. A few could figure it out in a few minutes but none had ever heard of this bizarre valve order before. Over the years, several more instruments with this valve order were acquired for the Utley Collection: a trumpet by Andreas Barth, Munich, with only two valves in this configuration (Figure 3a, b); another three-valve trumpet by Dominicus Leicher, Augsburg (Figure 4a, b); a soprano saxhorn by Isaac Fiske, Worcester, Massachusettes (Figure 5); an unsigned American cornet in which the player has the choice between the normal or the reversed valve order (Figure 6a, b); and finally a late-nineteenth-century trumpet by Conrad Weidlich, Regensburg (Figure 7a, b). These instruments triggered a project to find as many brasswinds as possible that displayed this valve configuration. The objective was to categorize them in terms of when, where, and by whom they were made, as well as their structure. This project was started in 1995 by Joe Utley 1 and continued in 2002 by Sabine Klaus. The research is based not only on examinations of the holdings of museums and private collections, but also on the analysis of photos and descriptions in instrument catalogues. The work cannot be exhaustive, but it is possible to summarize general tendencies from what can be learned of the 172 instruments listed in Table 1.
UTLEY & KLAUS 75 Figure 3a, b Trumpet in Bf by Andreas Barth, Munich, ca. 1837 (Utley/NMM, 7058. Photo: Mark Olencki). One problem plagued this study from its inception: The authors could not examine all of the instruments personally and therefore had to rely on secondary sources in some instances. However, great caution was taken to use only the most reliable published material. Also, many colleagues, private collectors, and employees of the institutions listed in Table 1 were very helpful in filling in gaps. An important question, not always to be answered through recourse to photos in catalogues, is whether the reversed valve sequence is fixed or interchangeable. Sometimes this question remained open even when instruments were examined personally, since their condition did not allow removal of the slides. Our approach to this problem will be discussed in detail below. Two further considerations might obscure the frequency of this valve configuration and the material presented here: 1. Some instruments were altered so as to conform to the modern valve sequence in the course of repairs. 2
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UTLEY & KLAUS 139 APPENDIX TABLE I
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