Cornet, E-flat, high pitch
Maker
C. G. Conn
Date1889 ca.
Place MadeElkhart and Worcester, Indiana and Massachusetts, United States, North America
ModelWonder Leader's Cornet
Serial No.18056
SignedEngraved on bell on a slant: "MADE / BY / C. G. CONN / ELKHART, IND. / & / WORCESTER / MASS."MarkingsStamped on valve casings, respectively: 1 2 3
Stamped on second valve casing: 18056 / / PAT. JUNE / 15, 1886
Stamped on telescopic tuning slide ferrule: 5
DescriptionSilver-plated brass
Telescopic main tuning slide at leadpipe with wing-screw adjustment
Three tower-spring Périnet valves with three unequal guide pins each.
DimensionsHeight (without mouthpiece): 307 mm
Bell diameter: 123 mm
Bore (second valve slide): 11.38 mm
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Published ReferencesNMM catalog: _As Good as Gold: The First 50 Years (1973-2023)_. Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 2023. (pp. 19-20, 22-23)
Marshall L. Scott, "The American Piston Valved Cornets and Trumpets of The Shrine to Music Museum," D. M. A. Thesis, University of Wisconsin, 1988.
André P. Larson, "Goes to Indiana in May . . . C. G. Conn Exhibition Opens at Museum on February 4," The Shrine to Music Museum Newsletter 21, No. 2 (January 1994), pp. 1-2.
Margaret Downie Banks, Elkhart’s Brass Roots (Vermillion, SD: The Shrine to Music Museum, College of Fine Arts, University of South Dakota, 1993), p. 27
Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Object number03103
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