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Cornet… à pistons, B-flat
Cornet… à pistons, B-flat
Cornet… à pistons, B-flat

Cornet… à pistons, B-flat

Date1860 ca.
Place MadeFrance, Europe
Serial No.6907
Signednone
MarkingsStamped on tuning shank: L.P.
Stamped on second valve case, on all three valve caps, and the pistons: 6907
DescriptionBrass, double looped, tuning slide at second bow, three Stölzel valves (1, ½, 1½), spring in barrel.

Brass tuning shank stamped for low pitch (probably not original).

Late example of a typical French cornet à pistons, possibly used in the United States (tuning shank stamp for low pitch). Instruments of this type were offered in the US as cheap alternatives to more up-to-date string-rotary valve and Périnet valve cornets until the early parts of the twentieth century.
DimensionsHeight: 292 mm
Tube length (without and with tuning shank): 1170 mm, 1281 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slide): 12.1 mm, 9.4 mm, 11.7 mm, 11.7 mm
Bore diameter shank (initial, minmum): 9.4 mm, 9.2 mm
Bell diameter: 110 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1983 from David Miles, London, England.
Published ReferencesSabine Katharina Klaus, Trumpets and Other High Brass: A History Inspired by the Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection. Volume 3: Valves Evolve (Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 2017), pp. 36-37, 50, 54-55, 295.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number06813
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