Lyon & Healy C/B-Flat/A Cornet: Museum Object and Cultural History
Lyon & Healy C/B-Flat/A Cornet: date made: 1900-1925. maker: Lyon & Healy. Object Name: cornet.
The object in the museum catalogue
This cornet was made by Lyon & Healy in Chicago, Illinois about 1903. It is a C/B-flat/A cornet, Own Make model serial #3075, made of silver plated brass, and has 3 piston valves. This cornet can be played as a C cornet instrument with slide(s) to B-flat and A. This cornet is engraved:
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1900-1925
- maker: Lyon & Healy
- Object Name: cornet
- Physical Description: brass (overall material)
- Physical Description: silver (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 16 in x 4 3/4 in x 6 1/2 in; 40.64 cm x 12.065 cm x 16.51 cm
- Measurements: overall: 16 3/8 in x 5 1/4 in x 6 3/8 in; 41.5925 cm x 13.335 cm x 16.1925 cm
- place made: United States: Illinois, Chicago
- ID Number: MI.70.28
- accession number: 290484
- catalog number: 70.28
- Credit Line: Gift of Robert Erickson
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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