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Echo cornet, C, B-flat, A

Maker Antoine Courtois & Mille

Date1882 ca.

Place MadeParis, France, Europe

Serial No.14030

SignedStamped on bell: MÉDAILLE / DE / 1RE CLASSE / EXPOSITION / UNIVERSELLE / 1855 / Médaille / LONDRES 1862 / Exposition Universelle / PARIS 1867 / Médaille d’Honneur / EN ARGENT / ANTOINE COURTOIS & MILLE / MILLE SR / FACTEUR DU CONSERVATOIRE NATIONAL / 88. rue des Marais St. Martin / PARIS / 1ER PRIX / GRANDE MÉDAILLE D’OR / EXPOSITION DE MOSCOU 1872 / & MÉDAILLE D’OR PARIS 1878 / S. ARTHUR CHAPPELL / Sole agent / 52 New Bond Street / London
MarkingsStamped on inside of third valve cap: 14030
Stamped on valve caps and stems, respectively: 1, 2, 3, 4
DescriptionSilver-plated brass, double loop with additional loop for echo bell, main tuning slide at second bow, second tuning slide connects instrument with echo bell (fixed by two ligature screws), removable leadpipe (shank for C and crooks for B-flat and A), four Périnet valves (1, ½, 1½, switch to echo bell), valves one to three top-sprung, spring inside hollow stem, alignment by three unequal lugs on spring anchor plate, fourth valve bottom sprung (attached to instrument), brass pistons, single water key at first bow, windway 3-2-1-4.

Silver tuning shank, stamped: C
Two single-coiled silver crooks, stamped: Bb and A (presumably all original)
Two short tuning bits (presumably not original)
Silver cornet mouthpiece (presumably original), stamped: ANTOINE / COURTOIS / BREVETÉ / 88 R. DES MARAIS ST MARTIN / PARIS and MODELE / KOENIG
German-silver slide-grease box, stamped: ANTOINE / COURTOIS / BREVETÉ / 88 R. DES MARAIS ST MARTIN / PARIS
Black leather case with blue velvet interior; inside on lid in gold letters: CHAPPELL & CO LTD / 50 [sic!] NEW BOND STREET / LONDON.
Engraved on black leather tag on outside of lid: S. J. Hider.

The firm of Antoine Courtois was taken over by Auguste Mille in 1880, continued by Mille until his death in 1898, and then by E. Delfaux, his successor. Dating based on serial number.
DimensionsHeight: 315 mm
Tube length normal bell: 1097 mm, 1159 mm, 1323 mm, 1384 mm
Tube length echo bell: 158 mm longer than normal bell
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slides): 12 mm, 10.4 mm, 11.7 mm, 11.7 mm
Bore diameter (shank and crooks, range initial, minimum): 9.3–9.1 mm, 8.8–8.5 mm
Bell diameter: 128 mm (normal), 12.5 mm (echo)
ProvenancePurchased from Robert Hazen, Washington D.C., 1985.
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. 192-195, 199-200, 291.

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

Object number06856

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