Cornet, C
Maker
Getzen Company
Date1995 ca.
Place MadeElkhorn, Wisconsin, United States, North America
ModelEterna Custom Series 810
Serial No.P07254
SignedStamped on bell: ETERNA / BY / GETZEN / U.S.A.MarkingsStamped on left side of side of second valve casing: P07254
Stamped on first-valve thumb hook: 254
Stamped on spring stems, respectively: 1, 2, 3
DescriptionSilver-plated brass, burnished, mother-of-pearl finger buttons, double loop, main tuning slide at narrow second bow, fixed leadpipe, three Périnet valves (1, ½, 1½), top-sprung, spring inside hollow stem with wide openings, alignment by one lug on plastic spring anchor plate, steel pistons, trigger at first and third valve, two Amado water keys at first bow and third-valve slide, windway 3-2-1.
Silver mouthpiece, stamped: VINCENT BACH CORP. 5B
This 1990s Eterna short model cornet is identical to the present-day Custom Series 3810 C cornet.
DimensionsHeight: 323 mm
Tube length: 1172 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slides): 9.8 mm, 8.6 mm, 11.66 mm, 11.67 mm (0.46 inches)
Bell diameter: 122 mm (4 3/4 inches)
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. 259-60, 300.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07127
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