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Echo cornet, B-flat, C

Maker John Heald

Date1889-1890 ca.

Place MadeSpringfield, Massachusetts, United States, North America

Serial No.none

SignedStamped on normal bell: JOHN HEALD / MAKER / SPRINGFIELD MASS. / PAT. MAR. 25. 84 / PAT. AUG. 13. 89.
Stamped on echo-bell: John Heald. / Springfield, Mass.
MarkingsStamped on water key lever: PAT. MAR. 25. 84
Stamped on second valve casing: PAT. AUG. 13. 89.
Stamped on valve casings, lower valve caps, spring stems and largest guide lug, respectively: 1, 2, 3
DescriptionSilver-plated brass, mother-of-pearl finger buttons, double loop with additional loop for echo bell, main tuning slide at second bow substituted by C-attachment, second tuning slide connects instrument with echo bell (end pointing to the right), removable leadpipe (shank for B-flat, also required for C attachment), four Périnet valves (1, ½, 1½, switch to echo bell), valves one to three top-sprung, spring inside hollow stem, alignment by three unequal lugs on spring anchor plate, fourth valve bottom sprung (attached to instrument), nickel-silver-plated pistons, patented thumb-activated double water key for first and third bows, windway 3-2-1-4.

C attachment
Nickel-plated brass tuning shank (not original)
Silver mouthpiece with detachable rim, stamped: P. FREDERICK / PHILA. PA. and 8 (not original)

Patent stamps refer to John Heald’s US patents no. 295,756 of March 25, 1884 (thumb-activated water key), and no. 408,972 of August 13, 1889 (inclined valve loops to smoothen windway and avoid sharp angles).

DimensionsHeight: 324 mm
Tube length normal bell: 1199 mm, 1053 mm
Tube length echo bell: 196 mm longer than normal bell
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slides): 12 mm, 10.5 mm, 11.7 mm, 11.8 mm
Bore diameter (shank, initial, minimum): 9.3 mm, 8.8 mm
Bore diameter (C attachment, initial, minimum): 12 mm, 10.3 mm
Bell diameter: 122 mm (normal), 10.2 mm (echo)
ProvenancePurchased from Jack Silver, Silver Spring, Maryland, 1983.
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. 196-97, 291.

Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999

Object number06826

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