Cornet, B-flat, high pitch
Trade Name
Pierre Marceau & Cie
Distributor
Sears, Roebuck & Co.
(distributor)
Date1900 ca.
Place DistributedChicago, Illinois, United States, North America
Serial No.none
SignedStamped on bell: MARCEAU & CO. / PARISMarkingsStamped on valves casings, caps and spring stem, respectively: 31, 32, 33
Stamped on second valve casing: 3
Stamped on second valve slide: 4
DescriptionBrass, nickel-silver finger buttons, double loop, tuning slide at second bow, removable leadpipe (shank), three Périnet valves (1, ½, 1½), top-sprung, spring outside stem, alignment by one key on piston (brass), single water key at first bow, windway 3-2-1.
B-flat tuning shank of brass.
"Marceau & Co. Paris" was a trade name of Sears, Roebuck & Co. in Chicago. This particular cornet model was offered under the trade name "Marceau Band Instruments" from 1899 to 1909, and very likely manufactured by Bohland & Fuchs in Graslitz, Bohemia, not in Paris.
DimensionsHeight: 309 mm
Tube length: 1168 mm, 1249 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slides): 12 mm, 9.9 mm, 11.3 mm, 11.3 mm
Bore diameter (shank, initial, minimum): 9.7 mm, 9.3 mm
Bell diameter: 117 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1983 from an unknown source.
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. 67, 75, 271.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number06845
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