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Cornet, B-flat, low pitch
Date: 1901-1905 ca.
Place Made:Elkhart, 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
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.
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
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.
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 4: The Heydey of the Cornet (Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 2022), pp.112-14, 275.
Object number: 06975