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Cornet, C (originally B-flat, A)
Maker: H. N. White Company
Date: 1913 ca.
Place Made:Cleveland, Ohio, United States, North America
Model: Improved Perfecto
Serial No: 11870
SignedEngraved on bell: KING / IMPROVED / PERFECTO / MADE BY / H. N. WHITE / CLEVELAND / OHIO.
MarkingsStamped on left side of second valve casing: THE KING / MADE BY / H. N. WHITE / CLEV’D. O. / 11870 / MEDIUM BORE
Stamped on right side of second valve casing: PAT. PEND’G
Stamped on valve stems, water key, and one of the main tuning slide ferrules: 11870
Stamped on valve stems and largest guide lug, respectively: 1, 2, 3
Stamped on right side of second valve casing: PAT. PEND’G
Stamped on valve stems, water key, and one of the main tuning slide ferrules: 11870
Stamped on valve stems and largest guide lug, respectively: 1, 2, 3
DescriptionSilver-plated brass, satin-finish with burnished highlights, bell interior gold-plated, mother-of-pear finger buttons, double loop, main tuning slide at first bow, quick-change slide at second bow replaced with small loop, fixed leadpipe, three Périnet valves (1, ½, 1½), top-sprung, spring inside hollow stem, alignment by three lugs on spring anchor plate, largest lug with horizontal brass wire, pistons nickel-plated brass, single water key (main tuning slide), windway 3-2-1.
“Patent pending” most likely refers to U.S. Patent 1,214,625, applied for February 10, 1913, and granted February 6, 1917. The primary subject of this patent is a quick-change to A, formed as a loop on the left side of the instrument after the valve segment. During the rebuild of this cornet from B-flat to C, the quick-change loop was removed and substituted with a smaller loop.
“Patent pending” most likely refers to U.S. Patent 1,214,625, applied for February 10, 1913, and granted February 6, 1917. The primary subject of this patent is a quick-change to A, formed as a loop on the left side of the instrument after the valve segment. During the rebuild of this cornet from B-flat to C, the quick-change loop was removed and substituted with a smaller loop.
DimensionsHeight: 380 mm
Tube length: 1194 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slides): 10 mm, 8.3 mm, 11.1–11.3 mm, 11.6 mm (0.456 inches)
Bell diameter: 121 mm
Tube length: 1194 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slides): 10 mm, 8.3 mm, 11.1–11.3 mm, 11.6 mm (0.456 inches)
Bell diameter: 121 mm
ProvenanceBefore 1940, owned by trumpeter Rafael Mendez (1906–1981); after 1940, owned by entertainer Paul Leonard, until his death in 1981. Purchased from Marjorie Z. Tayloe, North Hollywood, California, through Steve Dillon, Woodbridge, New Jersey, 1988.
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. 134-35, 278.
Spell, Clinton E. “A History of the H. N. White Co. and Its Products (1893-1965)” MM
Thesis, University of South Dakota, 2013, pp. 136-137.
Spell, Clinton E. “A History of the H. N. White Co. and Its Products (1893-1965)” MM
Thesis, University of South Dakota, 2013, pp. 136-137.
Object number: 06907