Pocket cornet, B-flat
Maker
Frank Holton & Company
Date1971
Place MadeElkhorn, Wisconsin, United States, North America
ModelC150
Serial No.499751
SignedEngraved on bell: HOLTON / ELKHORN, WI / U.S.A.MarkingsStamped on receiver ferrule: C150
Stamped on right side of second valve casing: 499751
Stamped on valve casings and pistons, respectively: 1, 2, 3
DescriptionBrass, nickel-silver water key, finger buttons and valve caps, quadruple looped, main tuning slide at second bow, fixed leadpipe, three Périnet valves (1, ½, 1½), bottom-sprung, alignment by one plastic key on disk on top of nickel-plated brass pistons, single water at first bow, windway 3-2-1.
Silver cornet mouthpiece, stamped: VINCENT BACH 5B
The quadruple folding of the Holton C150 cornet model allows maintaining the normal 4½-ft. B-flat cornet pitch, and simultaneously providing a very compact design. It is marketed as “The smallest cornet made in the U.S.” (Marmot Music).
DimensionsHeight: 202 mm
Tube length: ca. 1380 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum, main tuning slide, valve slides): 9.8 mm, 8.7 mm, 11.5 mm, 11.5 mm (0.452 inches)
Bell diameter: 97 mm
ProvenancePurchased from the Woodwind & Brasswind Company, South Bend, Indiana, 1985.
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. 186-87, 290.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number06876
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