Cornet à pistons, B-flat, A, A-flat, G, F, E, and E-flat
Date1845 ca.
Place MadeParis, France, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedStamped at bell: Halari / A PARIS / FOURNR. DU CONSERVATOIREMarkingsStamped on leadpipe ferrule: C
Stamped on tuning shank for B-flat: SI B
Stamped on tuning shank for A: LA
Stamped on crook for A-flat: LA B
Stamped on crook for G: SOL
Stamped on crook for F: FA
Stamped on crook for E: MI
Stamped on crook for E-flat: MI B
Stamped on mouthpiece: EM]BOUCHURE RAYEL / [H?]UILBAUT / BTE S.G.D.G. / COUESNON & C. / PARIS / No 2DescriptionBrass, ivory finger buttons, double loop, tuning slide at second bow, turnable bell, three Stölzel valves (1, ½, 1½), screw alignment.Black wooden case with brass fittings; two brass mouthpieces, one original or contemporary with the instrument, the other one with star-shaped throat and later; two brass tuning shanks and five crooks.
The spelling of the name “Halari” refers to Jean-Louis Antoine, not to his predecessor, Jean Hilaire Asté dit Halary. The cornet à pistons with upward turned bell is sometimes referred to as called “cavalry cornet” and can be interpreted as a relative of the néocor in F.
DimensionsHeight: ca. 370 mm
Tube length: 1277 mm, 1361 mm, 1431 mm, 1518 mm, 1601 mm, 1821 mm, 1931 mm, 2021 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slide): 12.8 mm, 11 mm, 11.2mm, 11.4 mm
Bore diameter shanks and crooks (range initial, minimum): 8.9–8.7 mm, 8.7–8.6 mm
Bell diameter: 120 mm
ProvenancePurchased from Galerie Inauen, Zürich, Switzerland.
Published ReferencesKlaus, Sabine K. “Metallblasinstrumente im Zeitalter des Erfindergeistes” in Valve Brass Music: 200 Jahre Ventilblasinstrumente, ed. by Conny Restle und Christian Breternitz (Berlin: Nicolai, 2014), p. 22.
Sabine Katharina Klaus, Trumpets and Other High Brass: A History Inspired by the Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection. Volume 3: Valves Evolve (Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 2017), pp. 38-39, 50, 54-55, 296.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07142
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Denis Antoine Courtois
1844-1856 ca.
