Curved cornetto
Date1974
Place MadeUnited States, North America
Serial No.none
SignedIllegible initials within oval cartouche stamped on leather cover above bell-end ferrule.MarkingsDate stamped on leather cover above cartouche: 1974
DescriptionLowest note with all fingerholes closed: a
Dark-stained maple wood, two halves, leather covered, brass ferrules, curved to the right, octagonal, carved diamonds, six fingerholes and thumbhole.
Copy of an Italian cornetto, possibly made in the United States.
DimensionsHeight: 602 mm
Tube length: 604 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum): 12.5 mm, 11.3 mm
Bell diameter (internal): 29 mm
Thumbhole position (from receiver): 241 mm
Fingerhole positions (from receiver): 264 mm, 300 mm, 333 mm, 401 mm, 445 mm, 489 mm
Hole diameter range: 7.2-8.3 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1997 from Professor Chesnut, Amherst, Massachusetts.
Published ReferencesKlaus, Sabine Katharina. Trumpets and Other High Brass: A History Inspired by the Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection. Volume 2: Ways to Expand the Harmonic Series (Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 2013), p. 253.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07229
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1600 ca.
1700 ca.
