Top action rotary valve trumpets - Revision history

Gwesterhof: /* Jan Dvořák, České Budĕjovice, Czechoslovakia */

2026-02-05T12:37:43Z

‎Jan Dvořák, České Budĕjovice, Czechoslovakia

Gwesterhof: /* Anton Riedl - Arigra, Graslitz, Czechoslovakia */

2026-02-05T11:31:38Z

‎Anton Riedl - Arigra, Graslitz, Czechoslovakia

Gwesterhof: /* Anton Riedl - Arigra, Graslitz, Czechoslovakia */

2026-02-05T11:30:54Z

‎Anton Riedl - Arigra, Graslitz, Czechoslovakia

Gwesterhof: /* Josef Keilwerth, Graslitz, Czechoslovakia */

2026-02-05T11:30:01Z

‎Josef Keilwerth, Graslitz, Czechoslovakia

Gwesterhof: /* 20th Century pre-WWII tarv trumpets */

2026-02-05T11:29:14Z

‎20th Century pre-WWII tarv trumpets

Gwesterhof: /* Jan Dvořák, České Budĕjovice, CZ */

2026-02-05T11:24:35Z

‎Jan Dvořák, České Budĕjovice, CZ

Gwesterhof: /* 20th Century pre-WWII tarv trumpets */

2026-02-05T11:09:50Z

‎20th Century pre-WWII tarv trumpets

Gwesterhof: /* Bohland & Fuchs, Graslitz, Czechoslovakia */

2025-11-18T10:44:04Z

‎Bohland & Fuchs, Graslitz, Czechoslovakia

Gwesterhof: /* Bohland & Fuchs, Graslitz, Czechoslovakia */

2025-11-18T10:41:39Z

‎Bohland & Fuchs, Graslitz, Czechoslovakia

Gwesterhof: /* Josef Keilwerth, Graslitz, Czechoslovakia */

2025-09-27T12:47:28Z

‎Josef Keilwerth, Graslitz, Czechoslovakia

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-</gallery><small>Tarv trumpet marked J.Dvořák Čes.Budĕjovice, coll. Vaclav Muska</small>
+</gallery><small>Tarv trumpet marked J.Dvořák Čes.Budĕjovice, before and after restauration, coll. Vaclav Muska</small>
 ==Herms-Niel-fanfare, Ernst Hess Nachf., Klingenthal, Germany==

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	A catalog 56 from Heinrich Hermann Dick in Markneukirchen offers a tarv in C with Bb valve and A extension. Dick was a trader, under the name Herdim. The catalog should be dated after 1922, because it refers to the Rudolf Mosse-Code that was implemented in that year.		A catalog 56 from Heinrich Hermann Dick in Markneukirchen offers a tarv in C with Bb valve and A extension. Dick was a trader, under the name Herdim. The catalog should be dated after 1922, because it refers to the Rudolf Mosse-Code that was implemented in that year.
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	==Josef Keilwerth, Graslitz, Czechoslovakia==		==Josef Keilwerth, Graslitz, Czechoslovakia==

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	A catalog 56 from Heinrich Hermann Dick in Markneukirchen offers a tarv in C with Bb valve and A extension. Dick was a trader, under the name Herdim. The catalog should be dated after 1922, because it refers to the Rudolf Mosse-Code that was implemented in that year.		A catalog 56 from Heinrich Hermann Dick in Markneukirchen offers a tarv in C with Bb valve and A extension. Dick was a trader, under the name Herdim. The catalog should be dated after 1922, because it refers to the Rudolf Mosse-Code that was implemented in that year.
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	==Josef Keilwerth, Graslitz, Czechoslovakia==		==Josef Keilwerth, Graslitz, Czechoslovakia==

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 <small>Identical engraving on F.X. Hüller a spol trumpet (l) and V.F Červený & S. tarv trumpet (r)</small>
-==F.X.Hüller, Graslitz Czechoslovakia==
+==F.X.Hüller, Graslitz, Czechoslovakia==
 And here's a F.X. Hüller Champion tarv trumpet, offered on Bazoš.cz in 2019. It has an extra loop to provide tuning in Bb and C (or A?). The seller (living some 240 km south east of Hradec Králové) dates it between 1930 and 1940. The engraving says: 'F.X.Hüller a spol, Kraslice' instead of 'F.X. Hüller & Co, Graslitz'. That could indicate that the instrument was meant for the Czech market and not for export.
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 In 1929 Franz Xaver Hüller obtained a Deutsche Reichs-Gebrauchsmuster (D.R.G.M.) registration for a top action rotary valve trumpet design (no. 1.088.742, September 4th, 1929). Franz Xaver Hüller was an instrument maker from Graslitz in Czechoslovakia (now Kraslice, Czechia). He was born on December 29th of 1856, in the nearby Pechbach. He founded his factory in 1882. By 1910 Hüller had 200-250 people at work. He built and traded wind instruments and stringed instruments, with branches in Markneukirchen and Klingenthal. From 1923 he also produced saxophones. In 1920 his daughters an his sons in law Anton Riedl and Ernst Modl became business partners and the name was changed to F.X. Hüller & Co. Hüller died in 1936. More about the F.X.Hüller & Co on the page about <strong>[[Ernst Modl brass instruments]]</strong>. Modl also produced some tarv trumpets after WWII, see below.
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 Sattler marketed his invention not only in the U.S. The model is found with both the name Julian Kielbich, an instrument trader from the Polish town of Bydgoszcz and Johann Sattler, Graslitz engraved. Bydgoszcz is a city in the northwest of Poland. It was German and named Bromberg until 1920 and during WWII. This trumpet says P.A. 6296, which I believe means 'Patent angefragt' (patent pending), referring to the Czech patent that was granted in 1935.
-==Nathan Einhorn, Philadelphia US==
+==Nathan Einhorn, Philadelphia, USA==
 One year before Sattlers invention was patented, a certain Nathan Einhorn had applied for a patent on another tarv like design, on September 28th 1937. That patent was granted August 20, 1940, patent number US2211770. He claimed "a novel construction and arrangement of a rotary valve trumpet which is adapted to he held in an upright condition, and in the same upright position as trumpets having reciprocatory valves. The tube arrangement is such that the trumpet can be more readily grasped by the musician, as the fingers surround upright tubes instead of the Valves. The arrangement of the tubing is such that the water condensed therein will pass to a single water key. The action is much shorter and faster than has heretofore been deemed possible in an upright trumpet."
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 </gallery><small>Josef Lidl, Brno, tarv trumpet, nr 4 on the middle valve casing, coll.: Gerard Westerhof</small>
-==Josef Dotzauer, Graslitz Czechoslovakia==
+==Josef Dotzauer, Graslitz, Czechoslovakia==
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 ==Herms-Niel-fanfare, Ernst Hess Nachf., Klingenthal, Germany==
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 In 1893 Eduard Kruspe retires from the daily business and his son Fritz takes over the company. Eduard is still attached to the business and keeps his development work for new models up. In 1897 Fritz and Walter, Eduards sons, developed the first workable F-B double horn.
 In 1920 control of the firm passed to Prof. Georg Wendel, Eduard Kruspe's son-in-law, who had been a horn player with the Boston Symphony Orchestra for 20 years. In 1936 Rudi Schneider started working for Kruspe, he took over the workshop in 1956. On their [http://www.edkruspe.de/kruspe_geschichte_en.html/ website] they state that after WWII "things became increasingly difficult for the firm. Obtaining materials, in particular, became more and more difficult and as a result barely any new instruments could be made. For 20 years, Mr. Schneider was the only master craftsman working at the firm." For this reason I think we must date this instrument before WWII.
 =20th Century post-WWII tarv trumpets=

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 ==Jan Dvořák, České Budĕjovice, CZ==
-A tarv trumpet with J.Dvořák Čes.Budĕjovice on the bell. Presumably made by Jan Dvořák, České Budĕjovice (german: Budweis) in South Bohemia.   Dvořák was born in 1871, and active between 1896-1949, according to the Langwill Index. This instrument was carefully restored by Vaclac Muska from Prague.
+A tarv trumpet with J.Dvořák Čes.Budĕjovice on the bell, playing in C. Presumably made by Jan Dvořák, České Budĕjovice (German: Budweis) in South Bohemia. Dvořák was born in 1871, and active between 1896-1949, according to the Langwill Index. This instrument was carefully restored by Vaclac Muska from Prague.
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 <small>B&F serial number 120411, source Ebay.be 2025</small>
-This instrument is engraved with the B&F logo and a serial number 120584 on the bell.
+And an identical one with serial number 120552
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 <small>B&F serial number 120584, source g.mu6 Ebay.co.uk 2016</small>
 And another - unmarked - one from the same Polish seller, probably also B&F. Dated by him as 70 years old

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 ==Bohland & Fuchs, Graslitz, Czechoslovakia==
-A very similar tarv trumpet is the B&F below. Bohland and Fuchs are established as a partnership in 1870, following the firm of Gustavus Bohland, which had been founded 20 years earlier, and flourished until 1945 when the firm was nationalized. By 1925, they had a workforce of 500. They were the first to use steam engines in their factory before WWI. Before WWII Bohland & Fuchs was one of the main brass instrument factories in Graslitz. During the war most factories were in the war industry. After the war, the production facilities of firms like B&F, Kohlert, Keilwerth, Hüller were merged into the AMATI cooperative (and in 1948 nationalized). This instrument is engraved with the B&F logo and a serial number 120584 on the bell.
+A very similar tarv trumpet is the B&F below. Bohland and Fuchs are established as a partnership in 1870, following the firm of Gustavus Bohland, which had been founded 20 years earlier, and flourished until 1945 when the firm was nationalized. By 1925, they had a workforce of 500. They were the first to use steam engines in their factory before WWI. Before WWII Bohland & Fuchs was one of the main brass instrument factories in Graslitz. During the war most factories were in the war industry. After the war, the production facilities of firms like B&F, Kohlert, Keilwerth, Hüller were merged into the AMATI cooperative (and in 1948 nationalized). This instrument is engraved with the B&F logo and a serial number 120411 on the bell.
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 <small>Josef Keilwerth Graslitz 736, source Ebay 2014</small>
 ==Johan Sattler, Graslitz, Czechoslovakia==