PELISSON - GUINOT & BLANCHON IN LYON/PARIS Copper... - Lot 23 - Vasari Auction

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PELISSON - GUINOT & BLANCHON IN LYON/PARIS Copper... - Lot 23 - Vasari Auction
PELISSON - GUINOT & BLANCHON IN LYON/PARIS Copper snorkel with four pistons and a Millereau mouthpiece Patented Paris House Couturier 1812 - G.Douat Bordeaux (dents, shocks and deformations, wear) Height : 65 cm 65 cm - Width : 33 cm Note : The word " tuba " comes from Latin and designated in Roman times a large curved trumpet (tuba curva) used in the military context. The invention of the tuba follows that of the piston, which revolutionized the manufacture of instruments of the brass family in the first third of the 19th century. Around 1835, Wieprecht, the general director of the Prussian military bands, asked the German engineer Johann Gottfried Moritz to work on the elaboration of a low brass instrument with pistons which could have a more homogeneous and powerful timbre than that of the Russian ophicleides and bassoons. On the other hand, another manufacturer, W. Schuster, developed a three-barrel tuba between 1830 and 1835.
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