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Tenor cornetto
Date: 1650 ca.
Place Made:Germany, Europe
Serial No: none
Signednone
MarkingsDecorative scoring in leather around bell.
DescriptionS-shaped, two carved-out wooden halves (fruitwood) covered with leather, top part with smoothly carved diamond pattern, the rest of the instrument octagonal; leather impressed with longitudinal lines along the edges and "x" patterns at the bell end; likely binding just above the forth finger hole (not very obvious); receiver ferrule of silver with wavy edge, simple dot stamps, V-shaped engravings and engraved lines; six fingerholes in two groups of three and a thumb hole; open-standing silver key with double keytouch for left-handed or right-handed playing, covering the seventh hole; key protection (fontanella) of silver, perforated on all three sides.
DimensionsTube length: 960 mm
Straight length including mouthpiece: 955 mm
Internal diameter: ca. 12-55 mm
External bell diameter: 66/70 mm
Straight length including mouthpiece: 955 mm
Internal diameter: ca. 12-55 mm
External bell diameter: 66/70 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1984 from Tony Bingham, London, England. Previously owned by Francis W. Galpin, Harlow, England. According to Bingham, this instrument was one of Galpin’s prize instruments.
Terms
Credit Line: Board of Trustees, 1984
Not on view
Published ReferencesAn Illustrated Catalogue of the Music Loan Exhibition Held . . . by the Worshipful Company of Musicians of Fishmongers' Hall, June and July 1904 (London: Novello, 1909), pp. 181 and 201.
Tony Bingham, Catalogue No. 10, Old Brasswind Instruments (London: Tony Bingham, 1983), p. 1.
"1984 Acquisitions at USD Music Museum," Newsletter of the American Musical Instrument Society 14, No. 1 (February 1985), P. 4.
Margaret Downie Banks, "17th-and 18th-Century Brass Instruments at The Shrine to Music Museum," Brass Bulletin 58, No. 2 (1987), pp. 50-51, 54, and 56.
André P. Larson, The National Music Museum: A Pictorial Souvenir (Vermillion: National Music Museum, 1988), p. 35.
Tony Bingham, Catalogue No. 10, Old Brasswind Instruments (London: Tony Bingham, 1983), p. 1.
"1984 Acquisitions at USD Music Museum," Newsletter of the American Musical Instrument Society 14, No. 1 (February 1985), P. 4.
Margaret Downie Banks, "17th-and 18th-Century Brass Instruments at The Shrine to Music Museum," Brass Bulletin 58, No. 2 (1987), pp. 50-51, 54, and 56.
André P. Larson, The National Music Museum: A Pictorial Souvenir (Vermillion: National Music Museum, 1988), p. 35.
Object number: 03451