Trumpet, B-flat, A
Maker
Ernst Albert Couturier
Date1922-1923 ca.
Place MadeLa Porte, Indiana, United States, North America
ModelConical 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?)
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).
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
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. 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.
Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Object number00654
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