Pocket cornet, B-flat
Trade Name
A. Hilleron
Distributor
Oliver Ditson Company
Date1890-1895 ca.
Place MadeParis, France, Europe
Place DistributedBoston, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Serial No.none
SignedEngraved on bell: A. Hilleron. / Paris.MarkingsStamped on valve casings, respectively: 1, 2, 3
DescriptionSilver-plated brass, triple loop, main tuning slide at second bow, removable leadpipe (B-flat shank not original), three Périnet valves (1, ½, 1½), bottom-sprung, alignment by one key on nickel-plated brass pistons, single water key at first bow, windway 3-2-1.
Brass tuning shank stamped: R. STEWART
Silver-plated lyre
Similar pocket cornets in B-flat ("Cornet si b de poche") were offered, for example, in a catalog of L’association general des ouvrier – J. Maitre, Fonclause & Cie. in Paris in 1898, and Lyon & Healy in 1896 (Thirty-Eighth Edition of Lyon & Healy’s New and Enlarged Catalogue of Band Instruments, Chicago, 1896, page 47). Manufacture in the factory of Couesnon & Cie. is likely.
DimensionsHeight: 219 mm
Tube length: 1224 mm, 1302 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slides): 12 mm, 10.3 mm, 11.2 mm, 11.4 mm
Bell diameter: 69 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1985 from Stewart and Lillian Caplin, New York, New York.
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. 181, 290.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number06875
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