Cornet à pistons, B-flat, A, A-flat, G, F, E, E-flat, and D
Maker
Marcel Auguste Raoux
Date1845 ca.
Place MadeParis, France, Europe
Serial No.292
SignedStamped on bell: AR / RAOUX SEUL FOURNISSEUR DU ROI RUE SERPENTE A PARIS / 292MarkingsStamp on silver plaque on tuning shank for B-flat: S B
Stamp on silver plaque on tuning shank for A: L
Stamp on crook for A-flat: L B
Stamp on crook for G: S
Stamp on crook for F: F
Stamp on crook for E: M
Stamp on crook for E-flat: M B
Stamp on silver plaque on coupler shank for D: R
DescriptionBrass, ivory finger buttons, double loop, tuning slide at second bow, three Stölzel valves (1, ½, 1½), screw alignment.
Original dark-brown wooden case with red leather interior and brass fittings; brass cleaning tool with wooden knob; brass mouthpiece with intermediate cup profile and narrow round rim (probably original); two tuning shanks, a coupler shank, and five crooks.
Marcel Auguste Raoux (1795-1871) was one of the leading Parisian brasswind makers of his time, being the first to be awarded the title of Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur. He exhibited cornets and ophicleides in the 1844 Paris exhibition.
DimensionsHeight: 278 mm
Tube length: 1296 mm, 1355 mm, 1449 mm, 1528 mm, 1633 mm, 1831 mm, 1956 mm, 2035 mm, 2174 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, tuning slide, valve slide): 11.2 mm, 10 mm, 11.2 mm, 11.2 mm
Bore shanks and crooks (initial, minimum): 9.5–9.3 mm, 9.4–8.6 mm
Bore coupler (initial, minimum): 9.6 mm, 9.4 mm
Bell diameter: 120 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1985 from Stewart and Lillian Caplin, New York, New York.
Published ReferencesIllustrated on title page of: Peter Gammond. The Illustraded Lives of Great Composers. Offenbach (London: Omnibus Press, 1980).
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. 33-36, 40, 46, 50, 53-55, 295.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number06852
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Denis Antoine Courtois
1844-1856 ca.
