Cornet à pistons, B-flat, A, A-flat, G, F, E-flat, and C
Maker
A. G. Guichard
Date1835 ca.
Place MadeParis, France, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedStamped on bell: GUICHARD / A PARISMarkingsLabel in case: BOIVERT / Guenier Cartonnieur / Fab.” de porte feuilles / Place mage, Nº 26. au 3 etage / A TOULOUSEDescriptionBrass, bell interior with painted Chinoiserie in red and gold, ivory fingerbuttons, tuning slide at second bow, two Stölzel valves (1, ½), screw alignment.Five crooks, three shanks, two tuning bits (not all of them original, but contemporary with the instrument); wooden case.
DimensionsHeight: 261 mm
Tube length: 1260 mm, 1310 mm, 1368 mm, 1497 mm, 1583 mm, 1775 mm, 2040 mm, 2145 mm, 2210 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slide): 10.7 mm, 10.2 mm, 10.6 mm, 10.6 mm
Bore shanks and crooks (receiver, minimum): 9.4–9 mm, 9–7.6 mm
Bore mouthpiece adapter (receiver, minimum): 8.5 mm, 7.3 mm
Bell diameter: 112 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1999 from Tony Bingham, London, England.
Published References“Recent Acquisitions,” America's Shrine to Music Museum Newsletter 26, No. 2 (May 1999), pp. 6-7.
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. 22, 25-26, 33, 35, 40, 50, 54-55, 293.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number06721
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Denis Antoine Courtois
1844-1856 ca.
