Cornet, B-flat, high pitch, B-flat, low pitch, A, low pitch
Maker
C. G. Conn
Date1898 ca.
Place MadeElkhart and New York, Indiana and New York, United States, North America
ModelNew York Wonder
Serial No.64364
SignedEngraved on bell: NEW YORK WONDER / MADE BY / C. G. CONN / ELKHART – IND / AND / NEW YORKMarkingson valves: 3 2 1 / 1 ½
on valve 2: PAT JUNE / 15. 1886
DescriptionSilver-plated. Inside of bell, screw caps, parts of the tuning slide and engravings gold-plated. Shepherd’s crook bell tube, shank, tuning slide and a particular windway of the valves that follow largely, but not consequently patents of 1886. Three Perinet piston valves with openings in towers and 3 guidepins each.
Similar to the Wonder Solo model of the late Worcester era, but built to be sold in Conn’s New York retail store, which opened in 1897. Conn’s ad said, “Throw away your old cornets and get a longer lease on life by purchasing the one that 20th-century players will use. Life is too short, and it is suicidal to hasten its end byplaying the mankillers sold throughout the country under the name of cornets. As the wicked fail to wear the crown, so shall musicians be rejected who neglect to use the Wonder.”
DimensionsHeight: 341 mm
Bell diameter: 119 mm
ProvenanceAcquired on behalf of museum, by Margaret Downie Banks, Curator, from Alcott’s Florist and Antiques, near Madison, New York, 1993.
Published ReferencesBanks, Margaret Downie. _Elkhart's Brass Roots_. Vermillion: Shrine to Music Museum, 1994. (p. 34)
Credit LinePurchase funds gift of Margaret and Ray T. DeVilbiss, 1993
Object number05560
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