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Cornet, B-flat, A
Cornet, B-flat, A
Cornet, B-flat, A

Cornet, B-flat, A

Distributor
Date1909-1911 ca.
Place MadeLondon, England, Europe
ModelNew Creation
Serial No.93085
SignedStamped on bell with engravings above and below: NEW CREATION / FB (monogram) / BESSON & C° / “Prototype” / 198 EUSTON ROAD / LONDON / ENGLAND / [five-point-star] / CARL FISCHER / 6 4TH Av. N.Y. / SOLE AGENT U. STATES
MarkingsL4 V2
[in circle]: BESSON & CO / [star] / BREVETE / 93085
DescriptionBrass body with gold-lacquer
Fixed leadpipe, double loop
Main tuning slide at second bow with screw-rings for quick-change to A; second tuning slide at third bow.

French rim with iron wire insert
Single water key at first bow

Three tower-sprung Périnet valves with three unequal guidepins
DimensionsHeight: 347mm
Bell diameter: 118mm
Bore (second valve slide): 11.7mm
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
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), p. 40

André P. Larson. Catalog of the Nineteenth-Century British Brass Instruments In The Arne B. Larson Collection of Musical Instruments. Ph.D. Dissertation. Morgantown, West Virginia: West Virginia University, 1974, pp. 102-104.
Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Object number00441
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