Cornet, B-flat

Date1901-1903 ca.

Place MadeGrand Rapids, Michigan, United States, North America

ModelMonarch, 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: 6442DescriptionSilver-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
DimensionsHeight: 326 mm
Bell diameter: 124 mm
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
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.

Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979

Object number01982

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