Cornet, B-flat, A, high pitch, low pitch
Maker
Antoine Courtois
Date1906-1907 ca.
Place MadeParis, France, Europe
Serial No.363
SignedStamped on bell: MEDAILLE / DE / 1RE CLASSE / EXPOSITION / [UN]IVERSELLE / 1855 (in circle) / ANTOINE COURTOIS / Breveté / FACTEUR DU CONSERVATOIRE / NATIONAL / 88. Rue des Marais St. Martin / Paris / H. & A. SELMER. INC. / SOLE U.S. AGENTS: / NEW-YORKMarkingsStamped on second valve casing: A. COURTOIS / PARIS (in oval) / 363
Stamped on quick-change valve casing: COURTOIS and 496
Stamped on valve casings and spring stems, respectively: 4, 5, 6
DescriptionSilver-plated brass, mother-of-pearl finger buttons, double loop, main tuning slide with rotary-valve quick-change to A at second bow, high/low pitch 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 of brass, single water key at first bow, windway 3-2-1
Alternative high and low pitch slides survive
After 1900 Courtois introduced a new series of serial numbers and changed the position from under the third valve cap to the second valve casing.
DimensionsHeight: 367 mm
Tube length: 1269 mm, 1309 mm, 1369 mm, 1409 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slides, valve slides): 9.3 mm, 8.7 mm, 11.3 mm, 11.1–11.3 mm, 11.3 mm
Bell diameter: 124 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1997 from Vince DiMartino, Danville, Kentucky.
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. 45-46, 268.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07266
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Denis Antoine Courtois
1844-1856 ca.
