Cornet à pistons, B-flat, A, A-flat, G, F, E, E-flat, and D
Distributor
Harteman
Date1840 ca.
Place MadeParis, France, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedStamped on bell: HARTEMAN / Breveté, / A PARISMarkingsEngraved on receiver ferrule: P
Original tuning shank for A stamped: LA
Later tuning shanks for B-flat stamped: SB
Later tuning shank for A-flat stamped: L.I
Crook for G stamped: SOL
Crook for F stamped: FA
Crook for E stamped: MI
Coupler for E-flat and D stamped: MIB
DescriptionBrass, silver, mother-of-pearl fingerbuttons, double loop, tuning slide at second bow, three Stölzel valves (1, ½, 1½), screw alignment.
Original black wooden case with leather interior; three tuning shanks (one original), three crooks, and one coupler.
This highly decorative cornet à pistons was sold by the little-known dealer Harteman in Paris. Decoration features commonly found on cornet à pistons by A. G. Guichard suggest that it was made in the Guichard workshop in Paris.
DimensionsHeight 273 mm
Tube length: 1332 mm, 1473 mm, 1646 mm, 1840 mm, 1942 mm, 2061 mm, 2163 mm [only original lengths]
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slide): 11.5 mm, 11.4 mm, 11.2 mm, 11.4 mm
Bore shank (initial, minimum): 9.6–9.3 mm, 9.3–9 mm
Bore coupler (initial, minimum): 11.4 mm, 9.9 mm
Bell diameter: 127 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1992 from Tony Bingham, 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. 33-35, 40-41, 50, 54-55, 294.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07078
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Denis Antoine Courtois
1844-1856 ca.
