Cornet, B-flat
Maker
Henry Distin
Date1857-1862 ca.
Place MadeLondon, England, Europe
Serial No.4132
SignedStamped on bell: DISTIN / LONDON [trade mark within capital D] / No 4132 / HENRY DISTIN / MAKER / 9. GRT NEWPORT ST / LEICESTER SQUARE / LONDON / CL s 1MarkingsStamped on top screw of second valve: R1 (not original?)
DescriptionSilver-plated brass, double loop, tuning slide at second bow, three rotary valves (1, ½, 1½) arranged vertically to be operated like piston valves, stopped by shape of link, clock-spring return with regulating gear.
Removable silver shank for B-flat (crooks lost); silver cornet mouthpiece stamped “HAWKES / 2 MODEL / HAWKES & SON. LONDON” (not original).
Dating based on address in the signature, name Henry Distin (not Henry Distin & Co.) and shape of trade mark. This model is listed as “Perpendicular rotary cornet in Bb, 4 crooks” in Distin's "Complete Catalog of Military Musical Instruments" from 1857.
DimensionsHeight: 308 mm
Tube length: 1238 mm, 1309 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slides): 11.6 mm, 10.4 mm, 11.5 mm, 11.4 mm
Bore diameter shank (initial, minimum): 9.3 mm, 8.8 mm
Bell diameter: 124 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 2002 frorm Tony Bingham, London, England.
Published ReferencesSabine K. Klaus, “Cornet in B-flat by Henry Distin,” in “Historical Instrument Window,” International Trumpet Guild Journal 38, no. 2 (January 2014), p. 46.
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. 144, 146, 150, 160-161, 170-171, 301.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 2002
Object number10289
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