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Cornet, A

Maker Schuster & Co.

Date1900-1904 ca.

Place MadeMarkneukirchen, Saxony, Germany, Europe

ModelPiston-Trompete in B, Modell H. R. 15.

Serial No.none

SignedEngraved at bell: Sächs,, / Musikinstr. Manufactur / [Saxon crown] / Schuster & Co,, / MarkneukirchenMarkingsStamped on valve push rods, lower valve caps, inner cover plates and horizontal bar supporting the clock-spring mechanism: 1 (followed by dots for distinction, one at the first and two at the second valve) Stamped on cover plate of first valve: 7DescriptionBrass, German silver, double loop, tuning slide at first perpendicular loop, three triangularly arranged rotary valves ("Kreuzventile," 1, ½, 1½), horseshoe stop, clock-spring return.

Unstamped brass cornet mouthpiece with very narrow rim; brass crook for A (shank for B-flat missing).

Based on a patent by Franz Schediwy (1851-1933), Ludwigsburg, Germany, from 1900 (Deutsches Reichspatent no. 122540, class 51c), the Markneukirchen firm Schuster & Co. offered this cornet model, called "Piston-Trompete in B, Modell H. R. 15.," in a catalog of military instruments from 1904. Originally, the instrument would have had a B-flat shank. The characteristic of this model was a perpendicular tuning slide at the loop that follows the leadpipe. Triangularly arranged rotary valves for a smooth windway were known in Vienna and Bohemia before Schediwy’s patent, but the use of the design for cornets was new. In his patent, Schediwy focused on the advantages resulting from the compact wrap and improved protection of the valve section.

DimensionsHeight: 313 mm
Tube length: 1317 mm, 1494 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slides): 11.4 mm, 9.8 mm, 11.6 mm, 11.7 mm
Bore diameter crook (initial, terminal): 9.5 mm, 9.6 mm
Bell diameter: 127 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1996 from Edward H. Tarr, Rheinfelden-Eichsel, Germany.
Published ReferencesSabine K. Klaus, "Cornet in A by Schuster & Co., Markneukirchen, ca. 1900," International Trumpet Guild Journal (March 2014), p. 46.

Sabine 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. 163-165, 170-171.

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

Object number07173

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