Cornet, B-flat
Distributor
Lyon & Healy
Date1891 ca.
Place DistributedChicago, Illinois, United States, North America
ModelNo. 402: Light Action Silver Piston Valves Cornet in B-flat
Serial No.1716
SignedStamped on bell: Lyon & Healy / “Silver Piston” / ChicagoMarkingsStamped on main tuning slide: 1716
Stamped on valve casings, caps and stems, respectively: 187, 188, 189
Stamped on second valve casing: 0
Engraved on inner slides of first and third valve: XII
DescriptionBrass, nickel-silver finger buttons, double loop, tuning slide at second bow, removable leadpipe (shank), three Périnet valves (1, ½, 1½), top-sprung, spring outside stem, alignment by one key on piston (nickel-plated brass), single water key at first bow, windway 3-2-1.
Brass tuning shank for B-flat (presumably replacement).
This cornet closely resembles the “Light Action Silver Piston Valves” B-flat cornet, no. 402, offered in Lyon & Healy’s New and Enlarged Catalogue from 1891.
DimensionsHeight: 312 mm
Tube length: 1249 mm, 1327 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slides): 11.9 mm, 10.5 mm, 11.4 mm, 11.3 mm (0.445 inches)
Bore diameter (shanks, inital, minimum): 9.3 mm, 8.8 mm
Bell diameter: 119 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1988 from Robert Hazen, Washington, D.C.
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. 74, 271.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07237
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