Cornet, B-flat, low pitch
Distributor
Sorkin Music
Date1938 ca.
Place DistributedNew York, United States, North America
ModelAmerican Trumpeteer (trade name)
Serial No.14865
SignedEngraved on bell: AMERICAN / TrumpetEER / [lyre] / SORKIN NEW YORK / MADE IN U.S.A.MarkingsStamped on left side of second valve casing: 14865
Stamped valve casings, respectively: 1, 2, 3
DescriptionSilver- or nickel-silver-plated brass, mother-of-pearl finger buttons, double loop, main tuning slide at second bow (originally with quick-change to A stoprod, now removed), fixed leadpipe, three Périnet valves (1, ½, 1½), bottom sprung, alignment by one key on nickel-plated brass pistons, single water key at first bow, windway 3-2-1.
The Louis Sorkin Music Company is first recorded in Philadelphia (from 1919 until 1928) and then in New York City (from 1937 until 1960). The company mostly dealt with string instruments (violins, guitars, mandolins). In 1938 Sorkin Music Co. registered a trade mark for Band Instruments. The trade name American Trumpeteer was reserved for trumpets and cornets.
DimensionsHeight: 390 mm
Tube length: 1340 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slides): 9.9 mm, 8.7 mm, 11.3 mm, 11.3 mm (0.445 inches)
Bell diameter: 115 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1998 from an unknown source.
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. 160-61, 286.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07359
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