Cornet à cylindres, B-flat, A, A-flat, G, F, E, E-flat
Distributor
Charles Gand
Date1850 ca.
Place DistributedLaval, France, Europe
Place MadeParis, France, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedStamped on bell: GAND / A LAVALMarkingsStamped on tuning shanks for B-flat: SB
Stamped on tuning shank for A: LA
Stamped on silver plaque of crook for A-flat: LAB
Stamped on silver plaque of crook for G: SOL
Stamped on silver plaque of crook for F: FA
Stamped on silver plaque of crook for E: MI
Stamped on silver plaque of coupler for E-flat: MIB
DescriptionBrass, single loop, trombone-shape, tuning slide at front bow, three Berlin valves (1, ½, 1½), screw alignment.
Black wooden case with red leather interior and brass fittings; two cornet mouthpieces of brass, one of them silver plated (contemporary with the instrument, if not orignal); music lyre; additional valve slide for first valve; two brass tuning shanks, four crooks, and one coupler.
This cornet model was only made by Adolphe Sax and the firm of Gautrot in Paris. Charles Gand, a luthier and organ maker born in Mirecourt (Vosges), was a dealer not a maker of brass instruments. He is known to have sold instrments by Gautrot.
DimensionsHeight (= body length): ca. 405 mm
Tube length: 1203 mm, 1274 mm, 1334 mm, 1448 mm, 1523 mm, 1713 mm, 1843 mm, 2083 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slide): 11.7 mm, 10.3 mm, 11.5 mm, 11.6 mm
Bore diameter shanks and crooks (range initial, minimum): 9.6–9.4 mm, 9.1–8.9 mm
Bore diameter coupler (initial, minimum): 11.4 mm, 10.1 mm
Bell diameter: 126 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1987 from André Bissonnet, Paris, France.
Published ReferencesSabine 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. 127-128, 134-135, 300.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number06886
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Adolphe Sax & Cie
1846-1854 ca.
