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Cornet, [B-flat missing], G [high pitch] or A-flat
Maker
Gustave Auguste Besson
Date1852 ca.
Place MadeParis, France, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedStamped on bell: GB / BESSON / Breveté / 7 RUE DES / 3 COURONNES / A PARIS.MarkingsStamped on second valve casing within oval frame: GB [? very faded] / BREVETÉStamped on valve casings, upper valve caps and pistons, respectively: 19, 20, 21
Stamped on lower valve caps, respectively: 19, 20, 8 (not original).DescriptionBrass, double loop, main tuning slide at second bow, removable leadpipe (crook, shank lost), three Périnet valves (1, ½, 1½), top-sprung, spring inside hollow stem, alignment by internal horizontal pin with differently-sized ends, locked through slots in stem; brass pistons, modèle français, windway 3-2-1
The only surviving crook can either be interpreted as high-pitch G or low pitch A-flat. Shanks for B-flat and A, and perhaps further crooks do not survive.
The valves resemble French patent no. 13879 from 1852 with amendments from 1853 by Charles Edme Rödel, Besson's piston maker.DimensionsHeight: 337 mm
Tube length: 1209 mm, 1527 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slides): 11.6 mm, 10.3 mm, 11.5 mm, 11.6 mm
Bore diameter (crook, initial, minimum): 9.4 mm, 8.4 mm
Bell diameter: 124 mmProvenancePurchased in 1991 from Tony Bingham, London, England.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. 28-30, 265.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07046
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