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King B-Flat Trumpet used by Dizzy Gillespie

Maker unknown

Custom King 'Silver Flair' trumpet with Gillespie's signature upturned bell, used from the late 1970s into the early 1980s.

Date
1977
Collection
National Museum of American History
Reference
1986.0003.01

Plate not recorded
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Record

Medium
Brass; shell
Origin
United States
Owner
Smithsonian Institution

In the Tapestry

Used by
Dizzy GillespieA

Provenance and history

  1. 1977

    CreatedA

Sources

  1. A

    americanhistory.si.edu

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