Cornet, C
Maker
Domenick Calicchio
Date1971-1972
Place MadeLos Angeles, California, United States, North America
Serial No.2114
SignedStamped on bell: 3 / D. CALICCHIO / LOS ANGELESMarkingsStamped on left side of second valve casing: D. CALICCHIO / LOS ANGELES / 2114
Stamped on stop screw of third valve trigger: S
Stamped on valve stems, respectively: 1, 2, 3
DescriptionSilver-plated brass, satin finish, finger buttons, valve caps and bell interior gold-plated and burnished, double loop, main tuning slide at second bow, fixed leadpipe, three Périnet valves (1, ½, 1½), top-sprung, spring outside hollow stem, alignment by one round key on spring anchor plate, pistons nickel-silver-plated brass, trigger at first and third valve, single water key at first bow, Amado water key at third-valve slide, windway 1-2-3.
Silver mouthpiece, stamped: 7C.
The Italian-born Domenico Calicchio (1901–1979) received vocational training in brasswind manufacture and repair in his native Rome and Milan before immigrating to the United States in 1925. Between 1928 and 1947, Calicchio maintained a workshop in New York City, specializing in custom-made trumpets with interchangeable leadpipes and bells. After moving to Los Angeles, California, he experimented with other types of instruments, among them this one-off C-cornet/trumpet with shepherd’s crook. The bell size (3) stands for a very large bell with wide, dark sound.
DimensionsHeight: 397 mm
Tube length: 1188 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slides): 11.1 mm, 8.9 mm, 11.6 mm, 11.68 mm (0.46 inches)
Bell diameter: 131 mm
ProvenancePurchased from Steve Dillon, Woodbridge, New Jersey, 1995.
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. 257-58, 299.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07128
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1990 ca.