Pocket cornet, B-flat, high pitch
Distributor
J. W. Pepper
Date1890 ca.
Place DistributedPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North America
ModelImproved French Piston, Bb Cornet, Pocket Model
Serial No.27617
SignedStamped on bell: J. W. PEPPER / IMPORTER / PHILADELPHIA / 27617MarkingsStamped on second valve casing: 0
Stamped on valve casings, respectively: 1, 2, 3
DescriptionSilver-plated brass, triple loop, main tuning slide at second bow, removable leadpipe (B-flat shank), three Périnet valves (1, ½, 1½), bottom-sprung, alignment by one delicate key on nickel-plated brass pistons, windway 3-2-1
Silver-plated B-flat tuning shank.
Nickel-silver cornet mouthpiece .
J. W. Pepper offered this "Improved French Piston, Bb Cornet, Pocket Model” in a Catalog of Band Instruments, published in Philadelphia, 1884. One surviving pocket cornet of this design is known to have the name Gautrot stamped, while most others are stamped with dealers or trade names. Yet, it is very likely they were all made in the large steam-operated factory of Gautrot âiné, run after 1883 by Couesnon in Paris - first as Couesnon, Gautrot et Cie., and then from 1888 as Couesnon et Cie.
DimensionsHeight: 220 mm
Tube length: 1188 mm, 1269 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slides): 11.7 mm, 9.3 mm, 11.5 mm, 11.2 mm (0.442 inches)
Bore diameter (shank, minimum): 9.3 mm
Bell diameter: 77 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1990 from Fred Oster, Vintage Instruments, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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. 180-81, 289.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number06989
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