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Some of the models advertised here are recognizably similar to instruments by Andreas
Barth in Table 1. The cornopean or cornet à piston has already been mentioned. There are
also several different versions of fluegelhorns with a trill key, interestingly listed among the
Salon-Instrumente. All instruments shown in Barth’s price list, with the exception of one, the
cornet à cylindre in the lower right corner, have the semitone valve positioned first.
Herbert Heyde published brochures and price lists from Markneukirchen in the
appendix of his Ventilblasinstrument, in which several instruments have the reversed valve
order; in addition, he reproduced sketches, made for brochures, of instruments with this
feature. While Heyde’s published material is plentiful, there is still more to be found in the
archives of the Markneukirchen Musikinstrumenten-Museum. A rich source is a convolute
of drawings of instruments from the estate of the mid-nineteenth-century music teacher and
technical draftsman Wilhelm Petzold of Markneukirchen. 56 Among them is a fingering
chart for a chromatic alto trombone in Ef, which shows the reversed valve order (Figure
45). 57 This particular sheet is not dated; however, several similar drawings of other
instruments with fingering-charts follow, one of which bears the inscription Am 24. Nov.
1848 Gustav Kämpfe gemacht (“On 24 November 1848, made by Gustav Kämpfe”).
According to Heyde, Petzold made these drawings for Kämpfe, who was an instrument
maker. 58 Gustav Kämpfe must have been a member of the Kämpfe family, who were active
in Markneukirchen as dealers and musical instrument makers from 1806. 59
Figure 45
Fingering chart of an alto valve trombone in Ef, Markneukirchen, ca. 1848
(Markneukirchen, F 29, no. 74.1. Photo: Musikinstrumenten-Museum
Markneukirchen).