Tenor cornetto
Date1650 ca.
Place MadeGermany, Europe
Serial No.none
SignednoneMarkingsDecorative 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
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.
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.
Credit LineBoard of Trustees, 1984
Object number03451
On View
Not on view
1600 ca.