Cornet à cylindres système Sax, forme horizontale, B-flat, A, A-flat, G, F, E-flat
Maker
Adolphe Sax & Cie
Date1846-1854 ca.
Place MadeParis, France, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedEngraved on bell: Ad,, Sax & Cie,,
Paris,,MarkingsTuning shank for A engraved A
Crook for G engraved G
Coupler engraved A b
Engravings not original.
DescriptionSilver-plated brass, single loop, trombone-shape, tuning slide at front bow, three Berlin piston valves (1, ½, 1½), screw alignment.
Three silver-plated brass shanks for B-flat (two) and A (one); coupler for A-flat and E-flat (usable in conjunction with B-flat shank or E-flat crook); three crooks for G, F, and E-flat (only usable with coupler); shanks and crooks of various ages. Original silver-plated brass mouthpiece with wide flat rim and almost funnel-shaped cup. Black conifer case.
Adolphe Sax designed the "cornet à cylindre système Sax" in two variants: with upright bell, called "cornet à cylindres forme Saxotromba de cavalerie" by Kastner (1848), and with horizontal bell or "forme horizontale," as in this instrument. Sax uses the term "cylindre" to describe his versions of the Berlin valve.
DimensionsHeight (= body length): ca. 410 mm
Tube length: 1252 mm, 1281 mm, 1312 mm, 1386 mm, 1494 mm, 1553 mm, 1779 mm, 2075 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slide): 11.6 mm, 9.8 mm, 11.3 mm, 11.3 mm
Bore diameter shanks and crooks (range initial, terminal): 9.5–9.2 mm, 9.9–9.6 mm
Bore diameter coupler: 11.4 mm, 9.7 mm
Bell diameter: 122 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1994 from Tony Bingham, London, England.
Published ReferencesSotheby’s Auction: Early Musical Instruments. London, Friday 13th November 1987, (London: Sotheby’s, 1987), p. 20.
http://www.galpinsociety.org/gdsl.html
Sabine K. Klaus, “Cornet cylinders, système Sax,” International Trumpet Guild Journal 36, no. 4 (June 2012), p. 55.
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. 125-126, 128, 134-135, 300.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07118
On View
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Denis Antoine Courtois
1844-1856 ca.
