Curved cornetto
Maker
John R. McCann
Date1998
Place MadeSandy, Utah, United States, North America
Serial No.none
SignedStamped below thumbhole: JMC (monogram)MarkingsStamped below signature-ligature: [ichthys] (Christian fish symbol)
Stamped below sixth finger hole: [two rabbit’s foot marks]
DescriptionLowest note with all tone holes closed: a
Box wood, two halves, leather covered, silver ferrules; curved to the right; octagonal, carved diamonds; three bindings (end of diamonds, between the fingerhole triads, and at the bell end); leather impressed with longitudinal lines, cross lines at bindings, and impressed tree and double-flame ornaments. Six fingerholes, thumbhole.
Baffalo-horn mouthpiece.
Copy of a late sixteenth- or early seventeenth-century Venetian cornetto. Characteristics of this style are the type of binding, the stamped leather patterns, and rabbit’s foot marks.
Shown here at center, along with NMM 7342 (top) and NMM 10737 (bottom).
DimensionsHeight: 607 mm
Tube length: 610 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum): 9.8 mm, 7.8 mm
Bell diameter (internal): 26 mm
Thumbhole position (from receiver): 245 mm
Fingerhole position (from receiver): 277 mm, 318 mm, 360 mm, 417 mm, 462 mm, 506 mm
Hole diameter range: 7.2-7.8 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1998 from John R. McCann, Sandy, Utah.
Published ReferencesKlaus, Sabine Katharina, Trumpets and Other High Brass: A History Inspired by the Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection. Volume 2: Ways to Expand the Harmonic Series (Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 2013), pp. 67, 254.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07314
On View
Not on view
1600 ca.
