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Cornet, B-flat, A
Maker: J. W. York & Sons
Date: 1913-1915 ca.
Place Made:Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States, North America
Model: Couturier Wizard Model
Serial No: 39827
SignedEngraved on bell: [five-pointed star and eagle] / COUTURIER WIZARD-MODEL (within banner) / Made by / J. W. YORK / & SONS / Grand Rapids / Mich. / U.S.A.
MarkingsStamped on left side of second valve casing: S / PAT. SEPT. 23-13 / BY E. A. COUTURIER
Stamped on right side of second valve casing, stems, top valve caps (inside), and water keys: 39827
Stamped on quick-change rotary valve: L / 706
Stamped on valve cases, caps, stems and largest guide lug, respectively: 1, 2, 3
Stamped on right side of second valve casing, stems, top valve caps (inside), and water keys: 39827
Stamped on quick-change rotary valve: L / 706
Stamped on valve cases, caps, stems and largest guide lug, respectively: 1, 2, 3
DescriptionSilver-plated brass, bell gold-plated inside and with gilded highlights on the outside, mother-of-pearl finger buttons, double loop, main tuning slide at third bow, rotary-valve quick-change to A, fixed leadpipe, three Périnet valves (1, ½, 1½), top-sprung, spring inside hollow stem, alignment by two unequal lugs on spring anchor plate, pistons nickel-plated brass, single water keys (first bow, third-valve slide), windway 3-2-1.
The patent stamp refers to US Patent no. 1,073,593, issued September 23, 1913, to Ernst Albert Couturier, for a cornet with continuously conical bore. Couturier served as a consulting artist for J. W. York & Sons between 1914 and 1916. However, the current cornet has cylindrical not conical tuning and valve slides.
The patent stamp refers to US Patent no. 1,073,593, issued September 23, 1913, to Ernst Albert Couturier, for a cornet with continuously conical bore. Couturier served as a consulting artist for J. W. York & Sons between 1914 and 1916. However, the current cornet has cylindrical not conical tuning and valve slides.
DimensionsHeight: 379 mm
Tube length: 1349 mm (B-flat), 1449 mm (A)
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slides): 9.6 mm, 8.6 mm, 11.9 mm, 11.9 mm (0.469 inches)
Bell diameter: 127 mm
Tube length: 1349 mm (B-flat), 1449 mm (A)
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slides): 9.6 mm, 8.6 mm, 11.9 mm, 11.9 mm (0.469 inches)
Bell diameter: 127 mm
ProvenancePurchased from Steve Dillon, Woodbridge, New Jersey, 1988.
Terms
Credit Line: Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Not on view
Published ReferencesSabine Katharina Klaus, Trumpets and Other High Brass: A History Inspired by the Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection. Volume 4: The Heydey of the Cornet (Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 2022), pp. 126-27, 279.
Object number: 06923