Cornet, B-flat
Trade Name
Besson
Maker
Boosey & Hawkes
Date1963-1964
Place MadeLondon, England, Europe
Place DistributedNew York, New York, United States, North America
ModelModel 1156 2-20
Serial No.379222
SignedStamped on bell: 50 MEDALS OF HONOUR / FB / Besson / 2-20 / [five-point-star] / LONDON –PARIS – NEW YORK / MADE IN ENGLANDMarkingsStamped on side of bell: 379222
Stamped on valve casings and spring stem, respectively: 1, 2, 3
DescriptionLacquered brass with nickel-silver ferrules and slides, mother-of-pearl finger buttons, double loop, main tuning slide at second bow, fixed leadpipe, three Périnet valves (1, ½, 1½), top-sprung, spring outside hollow stem, alignment by one lug on plastic spring-anchor plate, aluminium pistons, single water keys at first bow and third-valve slide, windway 3-2-1
Silver mouthpiece stamped: VINCENT BACH CORP MT VERNON NY 10-½C
The Boosey & Hawkes instrument books (Horniman Museum, London) this cornet was charged to Regent Street, where Boosey & Hawkes worked from 1930 onwards, on November 27, 1963; it was charged out on March 17, 1964. It is "Model 1156 LP LAC2-20 U-S.A.” and “Batch of 50 (379198-247) given out 27 Nov 1963; charged out 17 Mar 1964.” This refers to lacquered, low pitch (a' = 440 Hz pitch) and model 2-20 for the U.S. market.
DimensionsHeight: 396 mm
Tube length: 1320 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slides): 9.7 mm, 8.3 mm, 11.6 mm, 11.7 mm
Bell diameter: 117 mm
ProvenancePurchased from Antique Store in Natchez, Mississippi, 1992.
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. 41, 268.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07071
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