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Cornet, B-flat
Maker: J. W. York & Sons
Date: 1901-1903 ca.
Place Made:Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States, North America
Model: Monarch, large bore
Serial No: 6442
SignedEngraved on bell with shield: THE / YORK / MONARCH / LARGE / BORE / Made By / J W York / and / Sons / Grand Rapids / Mich.
MarkingsStamped on valve casings, respectively: 1 2 3
Stamped on second valve casing: 6442
Stamped on second valve casing: 6442
DescriptionSilver-plated brass body, double loop
Removable leadpipe (shank lost); main tuning slide at second bow; third bow passing through third valve slide
French rim with iron wire insert
Double water key for first and third bow
Three tower-sprung Périnet valves, originally with two guidepins (lost); knuckled-out, stepped porting
Screwed-on lyre holder with wing screw at third valve slide receiver
Removable leadpipe (shank lost); main tuning slide at second bow; third bow passing through third valve slide
French rim with iron wire insert
Double water key for first and third bow
Three tower-sprung Périnet valves, originally with two guidepins (lost); knuckled-out, stepped porting
Screwed-on lyre holder with wing screw at third valve slide receiver
DimensionsHeight: 326 mm
Bell diameter: 124 mm
Bell diameter: 124 mm
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Terms
Credit Line: Arne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Not on view
Published ReferencesGary Moege, A Catalog of the Alto Brass Instruments in the Shrine to Music Museum, DMA dissertation, University of Oklahoma, 1985, pp. 370-371.
Marshall L. Scott, The American Piston Valved Cornets and Trumpets of The Shrine toMusic Museum, D.M.A. Thesis, University of Wisconsin, 1988, p. 299.
Sabine 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), p. 124.
Marshall L. Scott, The American Piston Valved Cornets and Trumpets of The Shrine toMusic Museum, D.M.A. Thesis, University of Wisconsin, 1988, p. 299.
Sabine 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), p. 124.
Object number: 01982