Cornopean, B-flat, A, A-flat, F
Maker
John August Köhler
Date1854 ca.
Place MadeLondon, England, Europe
Serial No.858
SignedDie-stamped brass plate on bell: BY HER / 858 (engraved) MAJESTY’S / ROYAL LETTERS PATENT / J, SHAW / INVENTOR / [Royal coat of arms with lozenge] / KOHLER SOLE MAKER / 35, HENRIETTA STT / COVENT GARDEN LONDONMarkingsStamped on valve touchpieces, respectively: 1, 2, 3
Engraved on F crook: FDescriptionBrass, German silver, single loop, tuning slide between second and third valve, removable shanks and crooks, three disc valves (1, ½, 1½), fixed disc in relief, no cork buffers, round shaft, compression spring in long guide box.Original: crook for F
Not original: two brass tuning bits with ears; two crooks of French origin, stamped “SII” [B-flat] and “LA · B” [A-flat]; and, silver plated brass mouthpiece, stamped “EMBOUCHURE RAYEE / GUILBAUT / BSGDG / COUESNON & C[I]E / 94 RUE D’ ANGOUÊME / PARIS / No. 1”
This cornopean represents the final stage of disc-valve development. The guide boxes or tubes for the push rods—which had been used at least since the 1851 exhibition—may have provided the inspiration for replacing the clock-spring return with a coiled compression spring inside these guide tubes.
DimensionsHeight: 334 mm
Tube length: 1255 mm, 1399 mm, 1480 mm, 1514 mm, 1781 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, valve slides): 11.4 mm, 9.8 mm, 11.1 mm
Bore diameter original F crook (initial, minimum): 9.4 mm, 8.8 mm
Bell diameter: 122 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1992 from Tony Bingham, London, England.
Published ReferencesFrank Tomes, Sabine K. Klaus and Arnold Myers: “Shaw, Koehler and the Disc Valve in Britain,” in: Galpin Society Journal 66 (March 2013), pp. 109, 114.
http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/euchmi/galpin/gdkl.html.
Sabine 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. 267-269, 313.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07064
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