Object Details
- Description
This cornet was made by C. G. Conn in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1898. It is a B-flat/A cornet, serial #51787, made of silver plated brass with gold highlights, and has 3 Périnet piston valves with mother-of-pearl buttons and sculpted guides on the quick change slide. The bell of the cornet is ornately engraved with a floral design. The cornet is accessioned with a period wooden case covered with black leather and lined with purple plush, and accessories. This cornet is engraved:
MADE
BY
CONN
WORCESTER
MASS.The second valve on the cornet is stamped “PAT. JUNE [/] 15, 1886,” which refers to United States Patent #343888 granted to Charles G. Conn for “Improvements in Cornets, and other Piston-Valve Musical Instruments.”
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- C. G. Conn
- date made
- 1898
- Physical Description
- brass (overall material)
- silver (overall material)
- gold (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 13 in x 5 in x 6 1/2 in; 33.02 cm x 12.7 cm x 16.51 cm
- cornet: 13 in x 7 3/8 in x 5 in; 33.02 cm x 18.7325 cm x 12.7 cm
- mouthpiece: 2 3/8 in x 1 1/16 in; 6.0325 cm x 2.69875 cm
- Object Name
- cornet
