Cornet, B-flat, A, low pitch
Date1902-1903 ca.
Place MadeElkhart, Indiana, United States, North America
ModelTrue Tone
Serial No.1339
SignedEngraved on bell: THE BUESCHER MFG. CO / UNEXCELLED (within tuning fork) / TRUE=TONE [superimposed over triangle and bell] / TRADE MARK / REGISTERED / ELKHART. IND.MarkingsStamped on left side of second valve casing, pistons and valve caps: 1339
Engraved on second valve casing below serial number: PAT.– MARCH.- 19 – 01.
Stamped on valve casings, caps and pistons, respectively: 1, 2, 3
DescriptionLeft-handed set-up, silver-plated brass, mother-of-pearl finger buttons, double loop in unaligned S-formation, quick-change to A with stop rod (first bow), main tuning slide (second bow), removable leadpipe (shank), three Périnet valves (1, ½, 1½), top-sprung, spring outside stem, alignment by one key on piston (nickel-plated brass), pistons of three different lengths: short (third valve), medium (first valve), long (second valve), single water key (quick change), double water key with long handle (for both branches of main tuning slide), windway 1-3-2.
Silver-plated brass tuning shank for B-flat.
The winday and valve construction 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. The present instrument follows this patent in every detail, except that it is a mirror image of it, set up for a left-handed person.
DimensionsHeight: 322 mm
Tube length (instrument, B-flat, A): 1246 mm, 1343 mm, 1440 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slides): 12 mm, 10.7 mm, 11.7 mm, 11.7 mm (0.46 inches)
Bore diameter (shank, initial, minimum): 9.4 mm, 9 mm
Bell diameter: 127 mm (5 inches)
ProvenancePurchased from Steve Dillon, Woodbridge, New Jersey, 1990.
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. 112-13, 274.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07010
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