Cornet, B-flat, A, high pitch / low pitch
Maker
Ernst Albert Couturier
Date1919 ca.
Place MadeLa Porte, Indiana, United States, North America
ModelConical 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.
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.
Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Object number00652
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