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Cornet, B-flat

Cornet, B-flat

Maker: Yamaha
Date: 1986
Place Made:Hamamatsu, Japan, Asia
Model: YCR 2330
Serial No: 002083A
SignedStamped on receiver ferrule: [trade mark: three crossed tuning forks in circle] YAMAHA JAPAN
MarkingsStamped on right side of second valve casing: YCR 2330 / 002083A
Stamped on valve casings and spring stems, respectively: 1, 2, 3
DescriptionRed-brass leadpipe, yellow brass body, ferrules, pull ring, valve caps and water keys nickel-silver, plastic finger buttons, double loop, main tuning slide at second bow, fixed leadpipe, three Périnet valves (1, ½, 1½), top-sprung, spring inside hollow stem, alignment by two unequal delrin lugs on spring anchor plate, nickel-silver pistons, trigger at third valve, two single water keys at first bow and third-valve slide, windway 3-2-1.

Short-model B-flat cornet


DimensionsHeight: 349 mm
Tube length: 1338 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slides): 9.8 mm, 8.5 mm, 11.73 mm, 11.73 mm (0.462 inches)
Bell diameter: 119 mm (4 2/3 inches)
ProvenancePurchased from Jason High, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1988.
Terms
Credit Line: Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Not on view
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. 261, 299.
Object number: 06916