Cornettino
Vernacular Name
- Quartzink
Maker
John R. McCann
Date1998
Place MadeSandy, Utah, United States, North America
Serial No.none
SignedStamped below thumb hole: JMC (monogram)MarkingsStamped below signature: ichthys (Christian fish symbol)
Stamped below sixth finger hole: two rabbit’s foot marks
DescriptionLowest note with all tone holes closed: d1 (Quartzink)
Box wood, two halves, leather covered, silver ferrules; curved to the right; octagonal, carved diamonds; four bindings (at receiver, end of diamonds, between the fingerhole triads, and at the bell end); leather impressed with longitudinal lines, cross lines at bindings, and impressed tree and double-flame ornaments. Six fingerholes, thumbhole.
Buffalo horn mouthpiece
Copy of a sixteenth- or seventeenth-century Venetian cornettino.
Shown here at top, along with NMM 7314 (middle) and NMM 10737 (bottom).
DimensionsHeight: 450 mm
Tube length: 451 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum): 9.8 mm, 7.6 mm
Bell diameter (internal): 21.5 mm
Thumbhole position (from receiver): 166 mm
Fingerhole position (from receiver): 186 mm, 213 mm, 242 mm, 287 mm, 318 mm, 352 mm
Hole diameter range: 5.5-6.0 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1998 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, 254.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07342
On View
Not on view
1600 ca.