Cornet, B-flat, A
Date1865-1868 ca.
Place MadeWorcester, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Serial No.1311
SignedUnsignedMarkingsStamped on fourth valve cap: 1311
DescriptionGerman-silver body and brass bell (not original), circular bow, double loop, tuning slide at narrow second bow, removable shank, four side-action (lever under) string-operated rotary valves (1, ½, 1½ for rh., quick-change to A for left hand), stop arm, flat-spring return, windway: 3-2-1-4.
German silver B-flat tuning shank; German-silver lyre.
Attribution of this cornet to Isaac Fiske is based mainly on comparison with other instruments by this maker. For example, the flat-spring return at the valves is a distinguishing characteristic. Fiske advertised a similar three-valve circular-bow cornet model in a catalog from 1868. The signature is lost because the brass bell is a replacement.
DimensionsHeight: 354 mm
Tube length: 1241/1287
Bore diameter: 11.2 mm, 10.2 mm, 11.5 mm, 11.6 mm
Bore diameter shank: 10.5 mm, 9 mm
Bell diameter: 123 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1987 from Robert Hazen, Bethesda, Maryland.
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. 210, 242, 252-253, 309.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number06884
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