Cornet, B-flat, A

Date1907 ca.

Place MadeElkhart, Indiana, United States, North America

ModelPerfected Wonder, small bore

Serial No.94029

SignedEngraved within oval surrounded by engraved flowers and tendrils: PERFECTED WONDER / C. G. CONN / MAKER / ELKHART / - IND. -
MarkingsStamped on valve casings, respectively: 1 2 3
Stamped on second valve casing: S / 94029 / PAT. JUNE / 15. 1886
DescriptionSilver-plated brass body with gold-plated bell interior
Fixed S-shaped leadpipe; main tuning slide with push rod for high/low pitch (first bow), quick-change to A with stop rod (second bow); leadpipe enters third valve; sloping intervalve porting
French rim with iron wire insert
Two single water keys at the first tuning slide and the third valve slide

Three tower-sprung (spring inside hollow stem) Périnet valves, three unequal guidepin; mother-of-pearl touchpieces.

Patent stamp refers to US patent no. 343,888.
DimensionsHeight (without mouthpiece): 371 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. 99, 100, 146.

Marshall L. Scott, The American Piston Valved Cornets and Trumpets of The Shrine to Music Museum, D.M.A. Thesis, University of Wisconsin, 1988, p. 134.

Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979

Object number01768

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