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Cornet, B-flat, A, high pitch / low pitch

Cornet, B-flat, A, high pitch / low pitch

Date: 1919 ca.
Place Made:La Porte, Indiana, United States, North America
Model: Conical Bore model
Serial No: M 3575
SignedEngraved on bell: CONICAL BORE / PAT D / E. A. Couturier & Co. / LA PORTE / IND.
MarkingsStamped on valve cases, right side: "1" (first valve), "2" (second valve), "3" (third valve)
Stamped on second valve case, left side: PAT. SEPT. 23, 13 / OTHER PATS. PENDING / JUL. 23.18 / M / 3575

Quick-change stamped "M / 697"
DescriptionSilver-plated brass

Fixed leadpipe; double loop; first bow leading into the rotary valve quick-change to A, followed by the conical main tuning slide at the second bow; main tubing entering third valve on the right and exiting first valve on the left.

Three tower-sprung Périnet valves, two unequal guidepins each

The valve loops are splaying outward and do not have valve slides
DimensionsHeight (without mouthpiece): 384 mm
Height with mouthpiece: 393 mm
Internal diameter receiver: 10.1 mm
Internal diameter inner slides main tuning slide: 10.8 to 11.1 mm
Bell diameter: 118 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), pp. 121-122, 146.

Marshall L. Scott, The American Piston Valved Cornets and Trumpets of The Shrine to Music Museum, DMA Thesis, University of Wisconsin, 1988, p. 191.
Object number: 00652