Cornet, C, B-flat
Maker
Johann Eduard Kruspe
Date1880-1900 ca.
Place MadeErfurt, Thuringia, Germany, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedStamped on bell: KRUSPE / in / ERFURT / -O-MarkingsUnderside of lower valve caps and touch pieces stamped “10”.
DescriptionBrass, German-silver, tuning slide at second bow, three rotary valves (1, ½, 1½), three-point-wing device, one stop pin, clock-spring return with regulating gear.
Brass tuning shank for C (original?) and brass crook for B-flat (not original?); leather-covered wooden case in the shape of the instrument.
Cornet inspired by rotary-valve trumpet.
DimensionsHeight: 269 mm
Tube length: 1053 mm, 1118 mm, 1287 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slides): 11.6 mm, 11 mm, 10.9–11.4 mm, 10.9 mm
Bore diameter shank and crook (initial, minimum): 10–9.5 mm, 8.7–8.4 mm
Bell diameter: 112 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1997 from Rich Ita, Atlanta, Georgia.
Published ReferencesSabine K. Klaus, “Metallblasinstrumente im Zeitalter des Erfindergeistes” in Valve Brass Music: 200 Jahre Ventilblasinstrumente, ed. by Conny Restle und Christian Breternitz (Berlin: Nicolai, 2014), p. 34.
Sabine Katharina Klaus, Trumpets and Other High Brass: A History Inspired by the Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection. Volume 3: Valves Evolve (Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 2017), pp. 145, 150-151, 162-163, 170-171, 301.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07239
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