Pocket cornet, B-flat
Maker
Hakam Din & Sons
Date1950 ca.
Place MadeSialkot, Pakistan, Asia
Model81p model (early version)
Serial No.none
SignedStamped on bell: EDS (in circle, E and S crossed out vertically, and D horizontally) / GLORIOUS HORIZON / MUSIC / ESTABLISHED 1910 / HAK[AM] DIN & SONS / [Manufacturer] of / MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS / SIALKOT / W. PAKISTANMarkingsnone
DescriptionBrass, nickel-silver finger buttons, triple loop, main tuning slide at second bow, removable leadpipe (B-flat shank), three Périnet valves (1, ½, 1½), bottom-sprung, alignment by one key on brass pistons, single water key at first bow, windway 3-2-1.
Brass tuning shank for B-flat.
To the present day, Hakam Din & Sons is the only manufacturer of musical instruments in Pakistan. Founded in 1910 as bagpipe manufacturer, the company expanded production in the 1920s to include percussion and brasswinds.
This cornet model is a forerunner of the model 81-P, still produced by Hakam Din & Sons. The earlier model differs from the modern one by having a removable rather than fixed leadpipe.
DimensionsHeight: 231 mm
Tube length: 1204 mm, 1266 mm
Bore diameter (valve slides): 11.46 mm
Bore diameter (shank, initial, minimum): 9.5 mm, 8.8 mm
Bell diameter: 92 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1974 at an unknown music store, Lexington, Kentucky.
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. 188, 290.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number06878
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