Cornet, B-flat, A, high pitch / low pitch
Distributor
C. G. Conn, Ltd.
Date1939
Place MadeElkhart, Indiana, United States, North America
Model50A [also known as the "Stadium" model]
Serial No.139621
SignedEngraved on bell: ELKHART, IND. / U.S.A. (within circle surrounding marching trumpeters blowing towards North and South America) / Pan AmericanMarkingsStamped on second valve casing and pistons: 139621
Stamped on valve casings, pistons and upper valve caps, respectively: 1, 2, 3
DescriptionSilver-plated brass, mother-of-pearl finger buttons, double loop, main tuning slide with quick-change to A push rod at first bow, small loop after valve segment serving as second tuning slide (only low-pitch surviving, high-pitch slide likely lost), fixed leadpipe, three Périnet valves (1, ½, 1½), bottom-sprung, alignment by one key on “slik-valve” steel pistons, single water keys at main tuning slide and third-valve slide, windway 3-2-1
Silver-plated lyre.
Pan American offered this model as 50A between 1931 and 1938. This particular instrument is finish number 3, “Rich satin silver with inside of bell, engraving design and other prominent parts handsomely burnished for added beauty” with bore # 2 (0.468’’) and a 4½’’ inch bell.
DimensionsHeight: 420 mm
Tube length: 1345 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slides, valve slides): 9.9 mm, 8.4 mm, 12.3 mm, 11.86 mm (0.468 inches)
Bell diameter: 117 mm
ProvenanceGift of William F. Sasser, St. Louis, Missouri, 2000.
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. 162, 286.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 2000
Object number10825
On View
Not on viewPan American Band Instrument and Case Company, Division of C. G. Conn, Ltd.
1932 ca.
Pan American Band Instrument and Case Company, Division of C. G. Conn, Ltd.
1927-1928 ca.
