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Cornet, B-flat, A
Maker: C. G. Conn
Date: 1907 ca.
Place Made:Elkhart, Indiana, United States, North America
Model: Perfected 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
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.
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
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. 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.
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.
Object number: 01768