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Cornet, B-flat, A, high pitch, low pitch
Maker: Antoine Courtois
Date: 1906-1907 ca.
Place Made:Paris, 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-YORK
MarkingsStamped 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
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.
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
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.
Terms
Credit Line: Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Not on view
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.
Object number: 07266