Tenor cornetto
Maker
John R. McCann
Date2000
Place MadeSandy, Utah, United States, North America
Serial No.none
SignedStamped below thumbhole: JMC (monogram)MarkingsStamped below signature: Ichthys (Christian fish symbol)
Stamped below key: three rabbit’s foot marks
DescriptionLowest note with all tone holes closed: d, c with closed extension key.
American cherry wood, two halves, leather covered, brass keywork; s-shaped; octagonal, upper section with carved diamonds; four bindings (receiver, end of diamonds, between the fingerhole triads, and bell); leather impressed with longitudinal lines, cross lines at bindings, and impressed tree ornaments. Six fingerholes, thumbhole, open-standing double-wing key with brass cover.
Three mouthpieces - two of boxwood, one of plum.
Copy of a tenor cornetto with three rabbit’s foot marks in the private collection of Roger Brüderlin (Basel, then Canada).
DimensionsHeight: 963 mm
Tube length: 1010 mm
Bore (initial, minimum): 13 mm, 11.8 mm
Bell (internal): 47.5 mm
Thumbhole position (from receiver): 326 mm
Fingerhole position (from receiver): 400 mm, 439 mm, 484 mm, 583 mm, 626 mm, 670 mm
Keyhole position (from receiver): 791 mm
Hole diameter range: 9-12
ProvenancePurchased in 2000 from John R. McCann, Sandy, Utah.
Published ReferencesKlaus, Sabine Katharina. Trumpets and Other High Brass: A History Inspired by the Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection. Volume 2: Ways to Expand the Harmonic Series (Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 2013), pp. 67–68, 255.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 2000
Object number09829
On View
Not on view
1600 ca.
