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Cornet à pistons, E-flat, D, C
Date: 1870 ca.
Place Made:Paris, France, Europe
Serial No: none
Signednone
MarkingsStamped on first valve case and valve cap: 1
Stamped on second valve case: 2 / B / L
Stamped on third valve case: 3 / B
Stamped on second valve cap: 4 4 4
Stamped on third valve cap: 3
Stamped on crook: UT
Stamped on second valve case: 2 / B / L
Stamped on third valve case: 3 / B
Stamped on second valve cap: 4 4 4
Stamped on third valve cap: 3
Stamped on crook: UT
DescriptionBrass, single loop, telescopic tuning slide at receiver, removable shanks fit into tuning slide, three Stölzel valves (1, ½, 1½), spring in barrel.
Black wooden case with iron and brass fittings; two tuning shanks for E-flat and D, crook for C.
Attribution based on characteristically curved ferrules.
Black wooden case with iron and brass fittings; two tuning shanks for E-flat and D, crook for C.
Attribution based on characteristically curved ferrules.
DimensionsHeight: 278 mm
Tube length: 922 mm, 1021 mm, 1090 mm, 1166 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slide): 11 mm, 9.9 mm, 10 mm, 11.8 mm
Bore shanks (initial, minimum): 9.5–9.3 mm, 9.1–8.8 mm
Bell diameter: 114 mm
Tube length: 922 mm, 1021 mm, 1090 mm, 1166 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slide): 11 mm, 9.9 mm, 10 mm, 11.8 mm
Bore shanks (initial, minimum): 9.5–9.3 mm, 9.1–8.8 mm
Bell diameter: 114 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1993 from Robb Stewart, Arcadia, California.
Terms
Credit Line: Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Not on view
Published ReferencesSabine Katharina Klaus, Trumpets and Other High Brass: A History Inspired by the Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection. Volume 3: Valves Evolve (Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 2017), pp. 36-37, 40, 50, 54-55, 295.
Object number: 07087