Cornet, B-flat, low pitch
Date1901-1905 ca.
Place MadeElkhart, Indiana, United States, North America
Serial No.3633
SignedEngraved on bell: The / Buescher / ELKHART, IND.MarkingsStamped on right side of second valve casing: 3633 / PAT. MCH. / 19, 1901.
Stamped on valve stems: 3633
Stamped on upper valve caps: 3641 (apparently mixed up with another instrument)
Stamped on valve casings, stems, largest guide lugs and upper valve caps, respectively: 1, 2, 3
DescriptionSilver-plated brass, partially gold-plated, mother-of-pearl finger buttons, double loop in unaligned S-formation, two tuning slides (first and second bows, quick-change pushrod removed), now fixed leadpipe (originally removable shank), three Périnet valves (1, ½, 1½), top-sprung, spring inside hollow stem, alignment by three unequal lugs on spring anchor plate, pistons of nickel-plated brass in three different lengths: short (third valve), medium (first valve), long (second valve), single water key at first tuning slide, windway 1-3-2
Design follows U.S. patent no. 670,365, applied for by Ferdinand A. Buescher of Elkhart, Indiana, on October 20, 1900, and granted March 19, 1901.
DimensionsHeight: 315 mm
Tube length: 1347 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, first tuning slide, second tuning slide, valve slides): 9.8 mm, 9 mm, 11.1 mm, 11.7 mm, 11.7 mm (0.459 inches)
Bell diameter: 123 mm
ProvenancePurchased from Steve Dillon, Woodbridge, New Jersey, 1989.
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.112-14, 275.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number06975
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