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Cornet, B-flat, high pitch
Maker: William Brown & Sons
Date: 1911 ca.
Place Made:London, England, Europe
Serial No: none
SignedStamped on bell: Class A / IMPROVED VALVES / W. BROWN & SONS / Makers / KENNINGTON ROAD / LONDON
MarkingsStamped on valve stems, respectively: 1, 2, 3
DescriptionSilver-plated brass, double loop, tuning slide at second bow, removable leadpipe (shank), three Périnet valves (1, ½, 1½), top-sprung, spring inside hollow stem, alignment by three unequal lugs on spring anchor plate, pistons nickel-silver, wavy intervalve tubing, double water key (first and third bows), windway 3-2-1.
Silver-plated brass tuning shank for B-flat.
The makers W. Brown & Sons are recorded at Kennington Road in London from 1911 until after 1950. The valve improvements, mentioned in the signature, seem to be the slightly curved intervalve tubing.
Silver-plated brass tuning shank for B-flat.
The makers W. Brown & Sons are recorded at Kennington Road in London from 1911 until after 1950. The valve improvements, mentioned in the signature, seem to be the slightly curved intervalve tubing.
DimensionsHeight: 314 mm
Tube length: 1217 mm, 1288 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slides): 11.9 mm, 10 mm, 11.2–11.6 mm, 11.7 mm
Bore diameter (shank, initial, minimum): 9.7 mm, 8.9 mm
Bell diameter: 121 mm
Tube length: 1217 mm, 1288 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slides): 11.9 mm, 10 mm, 11.2–11.6 mm, 11.7 mm
Bore diameter (shank, initial, minimum): 9.7 mm, 8.9 mm
Bell diameter: 121 mm
ProvenancePurchased from David Miles, London, England, 1983.
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. 49-50, 268.
John Humphries. “W. Brown & Sons: A Nearly Forgotten Name in British Brass Making,” Historic Brass Society Journal, vol. 18 (2006), p. 12.
John Humphries. “W. Brown & Sons: A Nearly Forgotten Name in British Brass Making,” Historic Brass Society Journal, vol. 18 (2006), p. 12.
Object number: 06841