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Cornet, B-flat, A, C, low pitch

Maker C. G. Conn

Date1883 ca.

Place MadeElkhart, Indiana, United States, North America

ModelVocal

Serial No.3071

SignedEngraved on bell, surrounded by elaborate floral design: MADE BY / C. G. CONN / ELKHART IND. / G
MarkingsStamped on valve casings, respectively: 1 2 3
Stamped on second valve casing: 3071
DescriptionSilver-plated brass; touchpieces with mother-of-pearl inlay
C attachment with telescopic tuning slide inserted into the main tuning slide receivers at the second bow, bypassing leadpipe and first bow
Three top-sprung Périnet valves; spring outside stem; one lug on piston.
DimensionsHeight (without mouthpiece): 314 mm
Bell diameter: 120 mm
Bore (second valve slide): 11.55 mm
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Published ReferencesMarshall L. Scott, The American Piston Valved Cornets and Trumpets of The Shrine to Music Museum, D.M.A. Thesis, University of Wisconsin, 1988, p. 172.

Margaret Downie Banks and James W. Jordan, “C. G. Conn: The Man (1844-1931) and His company (1874-1915),” Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society, Vol. XIV, 1988, pp. 74-75 (photos).

Margaret Downie Banks, Elkhart’s Brass Roots (Vermillion, SD: The Shrine to Music Museum, College of Fine Arts, University of South Dakota, 1993), 17.

Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979

Object number03698

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