Cornet, B-flat, A, high pitch / low pitch
Maker
Bohland & Fuchs
Date1915 ca.
Place MadeGraslitz, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedStamped on left side of second valve casing: B & FStamped on receiver ferrule: AUSTRIA
MarkingsStamped on main tuning slide at two marks on inner slides: A and Bb.l.
Stamped on valve casings, stems and caps, respectively: 10, 11, 12
DescriptionBrass, water key and finger buttons nickel plated, double loop, main tuning slide at second bow with wing screw (lost) for low pitch B-flat and high pitch A (both marked), fixed leadpipe, three Périnet valves (1, ½, 1½), top-sprung, spring outside stem, alignment by one key on nickel-plated brass pistons, single water key at first bow, windway 3-2-1.
B & F stands for the firm of Bohland & Fuchs in Graslitz, Bohemia. The stamp AUSTRIA on the receiver ferrule indicates that the instrument was manufactured before 1918, when Bohemia was under Austrian rule.
The construction of the U-shaped main tuning slide with ligature screw to fix its position for different pitches (B-flat low pitch and A high pitch) is slightly unusual.
DimensionsHeight: 311 mm
Tube length: 1229 mm, 1293 mm, 1319 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slide): 9.1 mm, 8.9 mm, 11.7 mm, 11.7 mm (0.459 inches)
Bell diameter: 117 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1988 from Robert Hazen, Washington, D. C.
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. 151-53, 284.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07238
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