Slide cornet, B-flat, low pitch
Date1900-1915 ca.
Place MadeCleveland, Ohio, United States, North America
Serial No.none
SignedEngraved on bell: KING / MADE BY / H. N. WHITE / CLEVELAND / OHIOMarkingsnone
DescriptionBrass; shepherd’s crook bell, no tuning slide.
Probably a composite instrument made from a valve-cornet shepherd's crook bell and a slide cornet whose bell was lost. The slide dimensions match those given in a King catalog of 1927, but the bell is slightly larger.
DimensionsHeight: 547 mm
Tube length: 1325 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum): 10.1 mm, 9.9 mm
Slide bore diameter: B 11.1 mm (0.437 inches)
Bell diameter: 116 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1989 from Lark in the Morning, Mendocino, California.
Published ReferencesKlaus, Sabine Katharina. Trumpets and Other High Brass: A History Inspired by the Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection. Volume 2: Ways to Expand the Harmonic Series (Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 2013), pp. 43, 250.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number06985
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