Cornet, B-flat, A
Maker
H. N. White Company
Date1946-1947 ca.
Place MadeCleveland, Ohio, United States, North America
ModelKing Silvertone Master Model 2
Serial No.277743
SignedEngraved on bell: STERLING / BELL / KING / SILVERTONE / MADE BY / THE H· N· WHITE CO. / CLEVELAND / OHIOMarkingsStamped on left side of second valve casing: ”KING” / MADE BY / H. N. WHITE CO / CLEVE’D, O. / 277743 / MEDIUM BORE
Stamped on valve stems and upper valve caps (inside): 277743
Stamped on main tuning slide ferrules: 743
Stamped on valve stems, largest guide lug and valve casings, respectively: 1, 2, 3
DescriptionBrass body, sterling-silver bell with gold-finish interior, mother-of-pearl finger buttons, double loop, main tuning slide with knurled-nut sleeve for quick-change to A (second bow, surrounding valve segment), fixed leadpipe, three Périnet valves (1, ½, 1½), top-sprung, spring inside hollow stem, alignment by three unequal lugs on spring anchor plate, steel pistons, single water keys (first bow and third-valve slide), windway 3-2-1.
This model is characterized by its oblique placement of the main tuning slide surrounding the valve cluster. The regulation fine-tuning nut at the main tuning slide follows US Patent 1,206,858, applied for on March 24, 1913, by William C. Kidder, assignor to Henderson N. White, and granted December 5, 1916. The subject of this patent was to allow fine-tuning in connection with a quick-change (originally for the change from high to low pitch, and here from B-flat to A).
DimensionsHeight: 424 mm
Tube length: 1324 mm (B-flat), 1406 mm (A)
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slides): 10 mm, 8.5 mm, 11.6 mm, 11.6 mm (0.456 inches)
Bell diameter: 117 mm
ProvenancePurchased from George Borodi, Cleveland, Ohio, 1986.
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. 138-39, 282.
Spell, Clinton E. “A History of the H. N. White Co. and Its Products (1893-1965)” MM
Thesis, University of South Dakota, 2013, pp. 151-152.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number06890
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