Find Spot: Brudevaelte, Lynge Parish, Lynge Frederiksborg

Date of Find: 1797 f

Current Location: National Museum, Copenhagen, No. 8115/8114

Condition: Complete

Musical Characteristics: B-flat1, G-flat1, B-flat2, E-flat3, B-flat3, Eb-flat4, G4 , B-flat4, D-flat5, E-flat5, F5 , G5 , C6 , B-flat6.

Description: Right/left wound lur, tube yard 3 sections 0.75/0.76m long, mouthpipe has 5 eyes. Trombone-type mpce, bell yard in 3 sections 1.21/1.21m long. Bell disc has 7 bosses, `28 pips and 3 concentric circles: pattern of x 3 between bosses and complete ring around bell opening.

SD103: Five flat pendants on mouthpipe eyes

SD104: Only four pendants, one empty eye. Bell disc cracked.

Citations: SD105: Bronsted, 1939, 189, Figure 176; Broholm, 1949, 14, Plate 3 (left); SD104: Hammerich, 1893, 161, Figure 6; Bronstedt, 1939, 189, Figure 176a.

SD105 Brudevaelte

Find Spot: Brudevaelte, Lynge Parish, Lynge Frederiksborg

Date of Find: 1797

Current Location: National Museum, Copenhagen, No. 8117

Condition: Complete

Musical Characteristics B-flat1, G-flat1, B-flat2, E-flat3, B-flat3, E-flat 4, G4 , B-flat4, D-flat 5, E-flat5, F5, G5

Description: Right-wound lur 1.92 m long overall. Tube yard

0.8 m long in 5 sections. Mouthpipe has 5 eyes which carry 5 pendants. Mouthpiece shallow trombone-type with flat rim. Bell yard 1,12m long divided into 5 sections,repair, possibly in ancient times. Bell disc 285 mm diameter with 8 large hemispherical bosses with 56 pips and treble concentric circles. 24 of these on rough circle around periphery of disc, 16 on circle around bell mouth and 16 in pairs between bosses.

Citations: Broholm, 1949, 15, Figure 15, pls. 5 & 6; Holmes 2022: Figure 5.6

Image: Citation for image: Image is in the Public Domain