Cornet, B-flat, A, high pitch / low pitch
Maker
Bohland & Fuchs
Date1910-1915 ca.
Place MadeGraslitz, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedStamped on bell: BOHLAND & FUCHS / [three six-pointed stars] / [eagle] / Austria / [ribbon]MarkingsStamped on second tuning slide near marks for slide extension: Bb. l. P. and A. h. P.
Stamped on valve casings and stems, respectively: 7, 8, 9
Stamped on inner slide of first-valve slide: 10
DescriptionBrass, nickel-silver finger buttons, double loop in S-shaped formation, main tuning slide at first bow, high pitch / low pitch B-flat / high pitch A tuning slide at second bow (marked), fixed leadpipe, three Périnet valves (1, ½, 1½), top-sprung, spring outside stem, alignment by one key on nickel-plated brass pistons, single water key at main tuning slide, windway 3-2-1.
Bohland & Fuchs produced this imitation of a typical American model predominantly for the US market.
DimensionsHeight: 405 mm
Tube length: 1245 mm, 1313 mm, 1315 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slides, valve slides): 9.6 mm, 8.8 mm, 11.7 mm, 11.5 mm, 11.5 mm
Bell diameter: 123 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1998 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. 152-53, 284.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07351
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