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Cornet, E-flat
Cornet, E-flat
Cornet, E-flat

Cornet, E-flat

Date1870 ca.
Place MadeUnited States, North America
Serial No.none
SignedUnsigned
Markingsnone
DescriptionGerman-silver-plated brass, single loop, telescopic tuning slide with gear at leadpipe, three side-action (lever over) string-operated rotary valves (1, ½, 1½), stop arm, spiral-spring return.

Typical late 19th-century American cornet with wide bore of bugle-like character. Similar instruments were offered by the Boston Musical Instrument Manufactory and several New York makers and dealers (John F. Stratton, Julius Bauer, and Martin Slater, among others).
DimensionsHeight: 340 mm
Tube length: 945 mm, 955 mm
Bore diameter receiver: 10.8 mm
Bore diameter valves: 10.5 mm
Bore diameter tuning slide: 10.2 mm, 9.9 mm
Bell diameter: 117 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1989 from Lark in the Morning, Mendocino, California.
Published ReferencesSabine Katharina Klaus, Trumpets and Other High Brass: A History Inspired by the Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection. Volume 3: Valves Evolve (Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 2017), pp. 234-235, 250-251, 307.


Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number06982
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