Cornet, B-flat, A, low pitch
Maker
F. A. Reynolds Company
Date1938-1940 ca.
Place MadeCleveland, Ohio, United States, North America
Serial No.2868
SignedEngraved on bell: MADE BY / F. A. REYNOLDS / CLEVELAND O.MarkingsStamped on valve casings, respectively: 1 2 3
Stamped on second valve casing: 2868 / REYNOLDS
DescriptionLaquered brass; German-silver leadpipe and valve parts; mother-of-pearl finger buttons
Main tuning slide with quick-change to A (sleeve stopped), placed holizontally (in playing position)
Flaring part of bell made seperately and attached to conical part with a tab seam
French rim with iron wire insert
Single water key at first bow and third valve slide
Three tower-sprung Périnet valves; spring stopped by disk with one guide key for groove inside valve casing.
DimensionsHeight: 405 mm
Bell diameter: 119 mm
Bore (second valve slide): 11.65 mm
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Published ReferencesMarshall L. Scott, The American Piston Valved Cornets and Trumpets of The Shrine to Music Museum, D.M.A. Thesis, University of Wisconsin, 1988, p. 254.
Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Object number00819
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