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132 HISTORIC BRASS SOCIETY JOURNAL The price of “30 fl.” is exactly what the First Fusilier Battalion in Burghausen paid for their valve trumpet, so it is likely that it came from the Saurle workshop. There is no specific mention of the valve order in these sources. However, it is more than likely that they refer to instruments similar to the ones from the Saurle workshop discussed above. Also, no mention is made of the valve order in Saurle’s price list from 1826/40. Therefore one can conclude that valve order was not an issue of choice at that time. The semitone was always first, as can be seen in all the preserved Saurle instruments. Only later in the century do Bavarian sources document that the customer could chose which valve should be positioned first. Around 1879 Anton Betzenhammer’s customers in Munich, for example, had to determine whether they wanted to have the semitone first or second, as is obvious from the following remark in a price list of his instruments: Bei werthen Aufträgen wolle gefällig genau angegeben werden, ob … der halbe Ton am 1. oder 2. Cylinder, bei hoch C Trompeten: ob kurz oder lang gewunden. 53 With your esteemed commissions, you are respectfully requested to specify whether … the semitone is to be on the first or the second rotor; high C trumpets, whether short or long model. An order from the First Royal Bavarian Army Corps’ First Pioneer Battalion in Ingolstadt, dated 23 April 1884, shows how a response to this request might have looked. This order is addressed to Ferdinand Stegmaier, brass instrument maker in that city. The instruments ordered were a Bf and an Ef cornet à piston and a horn. The features of these instruments were specified as follows: 1. Das Instrument muß leicht bläsig, rein gestimmt und so gebaut sein, daß der Bläser nicht durch eine zu hoch oder zu tief liegende Maschine in seiner technischen Ausübung gehindert ist. Die Chromatik soll mit der rechten Hand zu spielen sein, der halbe Ton ist auf den Zeigefinger, der ganze Ton auf den Mittelfinger zu richten; neueste Verbesserung. Solo Qualität; zu jedem Instrument zwei Mundstücke & die nötigen Bögen. 54 1. The instrument has to be easy blowing, perfectly tuned, and so constructed that the player is not hindered in his technical execution by an action that is positioned too high or too low. The chromatic [valves] should be playable with the right hand; the semitone is to be positioned for the index finger, the whole tone for the middle finger; newest improvement. Solo quality; for every instrument, two mouthpieces & the necessary crooks. Erich Tremmel published several Bavarian price lists, mentioned above, 55 illustrating many instruments with the reversed valve order. A price list of Andreas Barth’s legal son Johann Baptist Barth, from after ca. 1875 (Figure 44), can be added to Tremmel’s lists.
UTLEY & KLAUS 133 Figure 44 Bilingual German-French price list by Johann Baptist Barth, Munich, ca. 1875 (M Stadtmuseum, 1952/no. 10. Photo: Münchner Stadtmuseum).
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