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Cornet, B-flat
Maker: Yamaha
Date: 1975 ca.
Place Made:Hamamatsu, Japan, Asia
Model: YCR-731
Serial No: 12052
SignedStamped on receiver ferrule: [trade mark: three crossed tuning forks in circle] YAMAHA JAPAN
MarkingsStamped on right side of second valve casing: YAMAHA / YCR-731 / 012052
Stamped on valve cases and stems, respectively: M and 1, 2, 3
Stamped on valve cases and stems, respectively: M and 1, 2, 3
DescriptionSilver-plated brass, mother-of-pearl finger buttons, double loop, main tuning slide at second bow, fixed leadpipe, three Périnet valves (1, ½, 1½), top-sprung, spring inside hollow stem, alignment by two unequal plastic lugs on spring anchor plate, nickel-silver-plated pistons, trigger at first and third valve slides removed, two single water keys at first bow and third-valve slide, windway 3-2-1.
Revival of a long model, “fixed leadpipe” shepherd’s crook cornet.
Revival of a long model, “fixed leadpipe” shepherd’s crook cornet.
DimensionsHeight: 408 mm
Tube length: 1346 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, valve slides): 9.8 mm, 8.5, 11.3 mm (0.445 inches)
Bell diameter: 126 mm
Tube length: 1346 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, valve slides): 9.8 mm, 8.5, 11.3 mm (0.445 inches)
Bell diameter: 126 mm
ProvenancePurchased from Steve Dillon, Woodbridge, New Jersey, 1996.
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. 260-61, 299.
Object number: 07168