Cornet: Museum Object and Cultural History
Cornet: date made: 1840-1850. Object Name: cornet. Physical Description: brass (overall material).
The object in the museum catalogue
This cornet was made by an unknown maker, in Europe around 1840-1850. This cornet is made of brass with an engraved nickel silver bell garland, and has 3 Stölzel piston valves. The cornet is accessioned with 7 terminal crooks: B-flat, A, A-flat, G, F, E, and E-flat.
Heinrich Stölzel (1777-1844), a German horn player is best known for making some of the earliest valves for brass instruments in 1814.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1840-1850
- Object Name: cornet
- Physical Description: brass (overall material)
- Physical Description: nickel silver (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 10 1/2 in x 4 3/4 in x 7 1/2 in x 12.3 cm; 26.67 cm x 12.065 cm x 19.05 cm x 4 27/32 in
- Measurements: cornet: 10 1/2 in x 8 in x 4 13/16 in; 26.67 cm x 20.32 cm x 12.22375 cm
- ID Number: MI.65.0160
- accession number: 256636
- catalog number: 65.0160
- Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Leonard Wallis
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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