Soprano cornet, E-flat, C
Trade Name
Goumat & Co.
Maker
Bohland & Fuchs
Distributor
J. W. Jenkins Sons Music Company
Date1895 ca.
Place MadeGraslitz, Bohemia, Austria, Europe
Place DistributedKansas City, Missouri, United States, North America
Serial No.none
SignedStamped on bell: GOUMAT & Co / FULLY WARRANTEDMarkingsStamped on valve casings and stems, respectively: 22, 23, 24
Stamped on second valve casing and water key: 3
DescriptionNickel-plated brass, single loop, telescopic tuning slide at leadpipe with ligature screw, additional crook for C (not original?), three Périnet valves (1, ½, 1½), top-sprung, spring outside stem, alignment by one key on piston, single water key at first bow, windway 3-2-1
Nickel-plated telescopic brass tuning slide for E-flat
Nickel-plated, single-coiled brass crook for C (presumably not original)
Unstamped German-silver cornet mouthpiece
Goumat & Co. is recorded as trade name used by J. W. Jenkins Music Co. in Kansas City, Missouri, for imports by Bohland & Fuchs (see 02208).
DimensionsHeight: 299 mm
Tube length: 937 mm, 947 mm, 1145 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, valve slides): 9 mm, 9 mm, 10.8 mm
Bore diameter (tuning slide, initial, minimum): 9.3 mm, 8.5 mm
Bore diameter (crook, initial, minimum): 9.2 mm, 7.6 mm
Bell diameter: 110 mm
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. 175, 288.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07030
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Pan American Band Instrument and Case Company, Division of C. G. Conn, Ltd.
1927-1928 ca.
