Cornet, B-flat, A, low pitch
Maker
Frank Holton & Company
Date1914
Place MadeChicago, Illinois, United States, North America
ModelRevelation #0-1/2 Bore Profile Finish D (Silver Plated, Sand Blasted, Polished Gold Bell Inside)
Serial No.29690
SignedEngraved on bell: MADE BY / Frank Holton & Co. / CHICAGOMarkingsStamped on left side of second valve casing: UNION / MPBP / B & SW (within shield) / LABEL / 0 ½ / FRANK HOLTON & CO. / CHICAGO / 29690
Stamped on valve stems and caps (inside): 29690
Stamped on tuning slide: PAT. FEB. 28. 99
Stamped on valve casings, stems, caps and largest guide lug, respectivaly: 1, 2, 3
DescriptionSilver-plated brass, bell interior gold-plated, mother-of-pearl finger buttons, double loop, double tuning slide at third bow for pitch-change and quick-change to A (two sets of slides inserted into each other, stop rods missing), fixed leadpipe, three Périnet valves (1, ½, 1½), top-sprung, spring inside hollow stem, alignment by two unequal lugs on spring anchor plate, pistons nickel-plated brass, single water keys (first bow and quick-change slide), windway 3-2-1.
Patent stamp on tuning slide appears to refer to John Heald’s US patent no. 620,450, applied for September 14, 1898, and granted February 28, 1899, for “a double tubular slide to constitute a key-changing and tuning device.”
The Holton Revelation has an even longer bell than the New Proportion, and displays no trace of a shepherd’s crook, effectively moving cornet design ever closer to that of the trumpet.
DimensionsHeight: 419 mm
Tube length: 1348 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slides, valve slides): 9.8 mm, 8.8 mm, 11.5–12.2 mm, 11–11.7 mm, 11.7 mm (0.46 inches)
Bell diameter: 121 mm
ProvenancePurchased from Lark in the Morning, Mendocino, California, 1989.
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.129-30, 142, 279.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number06974
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