Tenor cornetto
Maker
John R. McCann
Date1998
Place MadeSandy, Utah, United States, North America
Serial No.none
SignedStamped below thumbhole: JMC (monogram)MarkingsStamped below signature: Ichthys (Christian fish symbol)
Stamped below key: [three rabbit’s foot marks]
DescriptionLowest note with all tone holes closed: d, c with closed extension key.
American cherry wood, two halves, leather covered, silver ferrules, brass keywork; s-shaped; octagonal, upper section with carved diamonds; four bindings (receiver, end of diamonds, between the fingerhole triads, and presumably at bell end under ferrule), furthermore an octagonal brass ring beneath the leather cover at the receiver end; leather impressed with longitudinal lines, cross lines at bindings, and impressed tree ornaments. Six fingerholes, thumbhole, open-standing double-wing key with brass cover.
Plastic mouthpiece.
Copy of a 16th-century tenor cornetto with Venetian style decoration. Shape and pitch correspond with the Cornon/Groß Tenor Cornet in Michael Praetorius’s Theatrum Instrumentorum, plate VIII, no. 5, from 1620.
DimensionsHeight: 1045 mm
Tube length: 1102 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum): 11.5 mm, 10 mm
Bell diameter (internal): 44 mm
Thumbhole position (from receiver): 345 mm
Fingerhole positions (from receiver): 435 mm, 478 mm, 519 mm, 625 mm, 676 mm, 715 mm
Keyhole position (from receiver): 830 mm
Hole diameter range: 8.9-11.7
ProvenancePurchased in 1998 from John R. McCann, Sandy, Utah.
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), pp. 67, 254.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07364
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1600 ca.