Cornet, B-flat, A, high pitch / low pitch

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Cornet, B-flat, A, high pitch / low pitch

Maker Besson & Co.

Date1911 ca.

Place MadeLondon, England, Europe

ModelNew Creation Long Model

Serial No.101319

SignedStamped on bell: CLASS / A / NEW CREATION / 50 MEDALS OF HONOUR (in banners) / FB (monogram) / BESSON & CO / “Prototype” / 198 EUSTON ROAD / LONDON / ENGLAND / [five-point-star] / CARL FISCHER / 6. 4TH Av. N.Y. / SOLE AGENT U. STATES
MarkingsStamped on second valve casing: BESSON & Co / [five-pointed star] / BREVETE (in oval) / 101319
Stamped on valve casings, caps and spring stem, respectively: 19, 20, 21
DescriptionBrass, mother-of-pearl finger buttons, double loop, main tuning slide with "invisible" quick-change to A at second bow, high pitch / low pitch tuning slide at third bow, fixed leadpipe, three Périnet valves (1, ½, 1½), top-sprung, spring inside hollow stem, alignment by three unequal lugs on spring anchor plate, pistons nickel silver, single water key at first bow, windway 3-2-1.

Alternative high- and low-pitch second slide.

The “invisible quick-change to A” at the main tuning slide consists of two-part inner moving slides with a longer thinner and a shorter thicker segment. When the main tuning slide is pulled out, the thicker segment is stopped by rings screwed to the ends of the slide receivers. Fine-tuning is achieved by screwing the rings further in or out.

Serial number is slightly higher than one found on a presentation cornet from 1911 (serial number 94639, given to Rough Lea Colliery, Silver Band, 1911).

DimensionsHeight: 371 mm
Tube length: 1280 mm, 1322 mm, 1337 mm, 1379 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slides, valve slides): 9.4 mm, 8.3 mm, 11.4 mm, 11.5–11.7 mm, 11.7 mm
Bell diameter: 119 mm
ProvenancePurchased from Steve Dillon, Woodbridge, New Jersey, 1989.
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. 40-41, 268.

Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999

Object number06981

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