Cornet, B-flat, A, high pitch / low pitch
Maker
Bohland & Fuchs
Date1910 ca.
Place MadeGraslitz, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedStamped on second valve casing: B & FStamped on receiver ferrule: AUSTRIA
MarkingsStamped on valve casings, respectively: 76, 77, 78
Stamped on second valve casing: 12
Stamped on quick-change slide: [arrow] A [next to a mark indicating necessary slide-extension]
DescriptionBrass, nickel-silver finger buttons, double loop, main tuning slide (high/low pitch) at second bow, quick-change to A slide with push rod and lock nuts at third bow, fixed leadpipe, three Périnet valves (1, ½, 1½), top-sprung, spring outside stem, alignment by one key on nickel-silver-plated brass pistons, single water key at first bow, windway 3-2-1.
The initials B & F refer to the firm of Bohland & Fuchs in Graslitz, Bohemia (a part of the Austrian-Hungarian empire until 1918). Bohland & Fuchs made this model specifically for the American market.
DimensionsHeight: 327 mm
Tube length: 1279 mm, 1331 mm, 1345 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slides, valve slides): 9.3 mm, 8.6 mm, 11.6 mm, 11.6 mm
Bell diameter: 118 mm
ProvenanceNo information available.
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. 151-54, 284.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07112
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