Cornet, B-flat
Maker
B. F. Richardson
Date1862-1866 ca.
Place MadeBoston, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Serial No.none
SignedEngraved on garland: Made by / B. F. RICHARDSON / BostonMarkingsScratched onto underside of each valve key, respectively: I II III
DescriptionNickel-silver (German-silver)
Fixed leadpipe
Main tuning slide at narrow first bow
Three top-action string-operated flat rotary valves (Allen valves) with internal stop
Bell beneath valves in playing position
Simplified three-valve version of Bayley's American six-valve cornet.
DimensionsHeight: 408 mm
Bell diameter: 107 mm
Bore (second valve slide): 10.95 mm
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Published ReferencesMargaret Downie Banks, “Nineteenth Century Brass instruments at the Shrine to Music Museum,” Brass Bulletin, Vol. 61, No. 1 (1988), pp. 57-58.
André P. Larson, The National Music Museum: A Pictorial Souvenir (Vermillion:
National Music Museum, 1988), p. 54.
“Gallery I Dedicated October 9,” Shrine to Music Museum, Inc. Newsletter, Vol. 9, No.
2 (January 1982), p. 4.
Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Object number00690
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