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Trumpet, B-flat, A
Maker: Ernst Albert Couturier
Date: 1922-1923 ca.
Place Made:La Porte, Indiana, United States, North America
Model: Conical Bore
Serial No: 8449
SignedEngraved on bell: CONICAL BORE / PAT’D / E. A. Couturier Co / LA PORTE / IND.
MarkingsStamped on valve cases: "1" (first valve), "2" (second valve, right), "3" (third valve)
Stamped on second valve, left side: PAT'D SEPT 23, 13 / OTHER PATS PENDING / 8449
Stamped on piston spring cases: 8449
Stamped on quick-change rotary valve: 70
Engraved on quick-change rotary valve: CF(owner's initials?)
Stamped on second valve, left side: PAT'D SEPT 23, 13 / OTHER PATS PENDING / 8449
Stamped on piston spring cases: 8449
Stamped on quick-change rotary valve: 70
Engraved on quick-change rotary valve: CF(owner's initials?)
DescriptionBrass with gold-brass lacquer; mother-of-pearl touchpiece inlays
Main tuning slide with rotary-valve quick-change to A (no slides).
Three tower-spring Périnet valves with two unequal guide pins each; no valve slides.
Continuous conical bore instrument, following the patent of September 24, 1918 (US Patent # 52,473).
Main tuning slide with rotary-valve quick-change to A (no slides).
Three tower-spring Périnet valves with two unequal guide pins each; no valve slides.
Continuous conical bore instrument, following the patent of September 24, 1918 (US Patent # 52,473).
DimensionsHeight: 456 mm
Bell diameter: 115 mm
Internal diameter receiver: 10.4 mm
Bore diameter at main tuning slide (internal diameter inner slides): 10 mm
Bell diameter: 115 mm
Internal diameter receiver: 10.4 mm
Bore diameter at main tuning slide (internal diameter inner slides): 10 mm
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Terms
Credit Line: Arne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Not on view
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. 146.
Marshall L. Scott, The American Piston Valved Cornets and Trumpets of The Shrine to Music Museum, DMA Thesis, University of Wisconsin, 1988, p. 193.
Marshall L. Scott, The American Piston Valved Cornets and Trumpets of The Shrine to Music Museum, DMA Thesis, University of Wisconsin, 1988, p. 193.
Object number: 00654