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Cornet, B-flat
Cornet, B-flat
Cornet, B-flat

Cornet, B-flat

Trade Name
Distributor
Date1890 ca.
Place MadeParis, France, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedEngraved on bell: A. Hileron. / Paris.
MarkingsStamped on receiver ferrule: DAU
Stamped on water key: 6 or 9 [could be either]
Stamped on valve casings and caps, respectively: 1, 2, 3
Stamped on second valve casing: G / P
DescriptionBrass, nickel-silver finger buttons, double loop, tuning slide at second bow, removable leadpipe (shank), three Périnet valves (1, ½, 1½), top sprung, spring outside stem, alignment by one key on piston (brass), single water key at first bow, indway 3-2-1.

Brass tuning shank for B-flat.

"A. Hil[l]eron, Paris" was a medium-priced French-imported line of John C. Haynes, a branch of the Oliver Ditson Company in Boston. Catalogs from 1883 to 1908 offer Hileron instruments. The stamp G / P on the second valve casing may indicate that this cornet was produced by Gautrot in Paris.


DimensionsHeight: 319 mm
Tube length: 1179 mm, 1294 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slides): 12 mm, 9.8 mm, 11.1 mm, 11.1 mm
Bore diameter (shank, initial, minimum): 9.5 mm, 8.5 mm
Bell diameter: 121 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1984 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. 72, 270.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number06842
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