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This site has been developed as a web-based audio accompaniment to the publication War Damaged Musical Instruments. It is designed to reflect the chapter structure of the publication but it also hosts footage of the recording sessions, the various installations and fragments of the audio master files of each of the instruments.

Audio Recording
—Susan Philipsz
Captions and Texts
—Hunter Dukes, Eoghan McTigue
Camera and Editing
—Eoghan McTigue, Robin Thompson
Instrument Photography
—Julian Abrams, Björn Albert, Nick Ash
Installation Photography
—Julian Abrams, Achim Kukulies, Thomas Ritter, Stuart Whipps, Jan Windszus
Design and Development
—Florian Ludwig

Imprint
Studio Susan Philipsz
Kulturhaus Schöneberg
Kyffhäuserstraße 23
Atelier 32, 3. OG VH
10781 Berlin
studio@susanphilipsz.com

All texts, images, recordings and archival materials are copyright of their respective owners.

Cavalry Trumpet in E flat

This trumpet was salvaged from the wreck of the SS Pomeranian, torpedoed off Portland Bill—the southernmost point on the Isle of Portland in the English Channel—by the German submarine SM UC-77 in 1918. The trumpet was retrieved from the wreck by one Mr McDonnell, MM, BEM, while scuba diving in 1977. When it was recovered, the instrument was completely coated in barnacles and other encrustations. It was cleaned and returned to the Museum of Army Music in 1978.

Cavalry Trumpet in E Flat, Henry Potter of Charing Cross Road, London. Inventory number: MAM 1:0411. Collection: Museum of Army Music, Gibraltar Barracks, Minley, UK.

Cavalry Trumpet in E flat

Cavalry Trumpet in E Flat, Henry Potter of Charing Cross Road, London. Inventory number: MAM 1:0411. Collection: Museum of Army Music, Gibraltar Barracks, Minley, UK.

This trumpet was salvaged from the wreck of the SS Pomeranian, torpedoed off Portland Bill—the southernmost point on the Isle of Portland in the English Channel—by the German submarine SM UC-77 in 1918. The trumpet was retrieved from the wreck by one Mr McDonnell, MM, BEM, while scuba diving in 1977. When it was recovered, the instrument was completely coated in barnacles and other encrustations. It was cleaned and returned to the Museum of Army Music in 1978.

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Cavalry Trumpet in E flat