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Cornet, B-flat, A, low pitch

Maker Buescher Band Instrument Company

Date1904 ca.

Place MadeElkhart, Indiana, United States, North America

ModelTrue Tone

Serial No.2771

SignedEngraved on bell: THE BUESCHER MFG. CO / UNEXCELLED (within tuning fork) / TRUE=TONE [superimposed over triangle and bell] / TRADE MARK / REGISTERED / ELKHART, IND.
MarkingsStamped on second valve casing, stems and upper valve caps (inside): 2771
Stamped on valve casings, stems and upper valve caps, respectively: 1, 2, 3
DescriptionSilver-plated brass, double loop in s-shaped formation, quick-change to A (first bow, stop rod missing), main tuning slide (second bow), removable leadpipe (shank), three Périnet valves (1, ½, 1½), top-sprung, spring inside hollow stem, alignment by three unequal lugs on spring anchor plate, nickel-plated brass pistons, single water key at quick-change slide and third-valve slide (now missing), windway 3-1-2.

Silver-plated brass tuning shank for B-flat.

Early model with S-shaped leadpipe but removable B-flat shank. The same model with fixed leadpipe is documented at least since April 1906 as "New Long Model Cornet" with “Instantaneous slide to A” at the first bow and “Low Pitch and Tuning Slide” at the second bow (True-Tone Quarterly, Vol. V, No. 4, April 1906, page 3 ).
DimensionsHeight: 334 mm
Tube length: 1395 mm, 1466 mm
Bore diameter (quick-change slide, main tuning slide, valve slides): 10.7 mm, 11.7 mm, 11.7 mm (0.459 inches)
Bore diameter (shanks, initial, minimum): 9.6 mm, 8.5 mm
Bell diameter: 126 mm (5 inches)
ProvenanceBefore 1940, owned by trumpet virtuoso Rafael Mendez; after 1940, owned by entertainer Paul Leonhard until his death in 1981. Purchased from Marjorie Z. Tayloe, North Hollywood, California, through Steve Dillon, Woodbridge, New Jersey, 1988.
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. 114-15, 275.

Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999

Object number06910

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