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Soprano pocket cornet, E-flat, high pitch
Soprano pocket cornet, E-flat, high pitch
Soprano pocket cornet, E-flat, high pitch

Soprano pocket cornet, E-flat, high pitch

Date1887 ca.
Place MadeParis, France, Europe
Serial No.87
SignedStamped on bell: [lyre in aureole] / JTL / JÉRÔME / THIBOUVILLE – LAMY / PARIS / 1RE QTÉ / 87
MarkingsStamped on receiver ferrule: A
Stamped on valve casings and caps, respectively: 19, 20, 21
DescriptionBrass, nickel-silver finger buttons, double loop, removable shank with telescopic tuning slide (main tuning slide) adjusted by ligature screw, three Périnet valves (1, ½, 1½), bottom-sprung, alignment by one key on pistons, single water key at first bow, windway 3-2-1

Brass tuning shank with telescopic tuning slide
Brass lyre
Two unstamped German-silver mouthpieces (one original, the other one later)

The lyre in an aureole with the monogram JTL was registered in 1866, and in 1888 this mark was changed to DULCIS / FORTIS [lyre in aureole, bird in horn superimposed] / J.T. L. The number "87" in the signature may be a serial number or the date.
DimensionsHeight: 187 mm
Tube length: 843 mm, 926 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, valve slides): 11.7 mm, 9.4 mm, 10.6 mm
Bore diameter (telescopic tuning slide, initial, minimum): 9.3 mm, 8.2 mm
Bell diameter: 74 mm
ProvenancePurchased from Steve Dillon, Woodbridge, New Jersey, 1990.
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. 169, 176, 287.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07024
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