Cornet, B-flat, high pitch
Maker
Jérôme Thibouville-Lamy
Date1900 ca.
Place DistributedParis, France, Europe
ModelBuffalo or Buffalo Bill
Serial No.92 ?
SignedStamped on bell: THIBOUVILLE / PARIS / 92MarkingsStamped on valve casings, valve caps and spring stem, respectively: 28, 29, 30
Stamped on second valve casing: U.S.
DescriptionNickel-plated brass, double loop, tuning slide at second bow, removable leadpipe (shank), three Périnet valves (1, ½, 1½), top-sprung, spring outside stem, alignment by one key on piston (nickel-plated brass), single water key at first bow, windway 3-2-1.
Nickel-plated B-flat tuning shank, unstamped contemporary nickel-silver cornet mouthpiece, nickel-silver lyre. Shank for A lost.
Thibouville, Paris, Style U.S. was a low-priced cornet line, destined for the New York branch of Thibouville-Lamy & Co. This model was offered in catalogs from the late 1890s as "Buffalo" and in the early 1900s as "Buffalo Bill." It is a simplified Besson London Desideratum model with only one main tuning slide but no second tuning slide for high/low pitch. The model was delivered with two shanks, B-flat and A, a lyre and a nickel-plated mouthpiece, all these accessories (short of the A shank) survive.
DimensionsHeight: 333 mm
Tube length: 1199 mm, 1279 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slides): 12.8 mm, 10 mm, 11.5 mm, 11.6 mm
Bore diameter (shank, initial, minimum): 9.3 mm, 8.7 mm
Bell diameter: 127 mm
ProvenancePurchased from John Sytch, The Ole Treasure Shop, Hagerstown, Maryland, 1984.
Published ReferencesSabine 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), pp. 66-67, 272.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number06843
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