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Description: | SOLBRON/(REGISTERED)/CLASS A/TRADE MARK/BOOSEY/COMPENSATING PISTONS/BOOSEY & Co./MAKERS.LONDON/93319/Guaranteed/British Made/Throughout
Important developments were made in brass instrument design in the last decades of the 19th century with the London firm Boosey & Co. leading many of the innovations. The lower register on many instruments had been problematic because the valve combinations caused tuning problems. Compensating valves, like those on this cornet, solved the problem, but the extra tubing required made the instrument heavier. On later cornets, slides were attached to the valves to improve the tuning without significantly increasing the instrument's weight. Compensating systems continued to be used on lower brass instruments such as basses and euphoniums, but production of cornets employing the system eventually ceased. This instrument is the latest known surviving example of a Boosey compensating cornet.
Cornet in B-flat, high pitch. Made of brass with frosted silver plating. Three PĂ©rinet valves, compensating system. The third valve loop returns to the first valve, and the first and second valves have supplementary loops, which are brought into play when used in conjunction with the third valve. There is a socket for a music card holder. The double water key has two cups branching from one touchpiece. The instrument has one shank. The mouthpiece is missing. The stamp on the bell reads: SOLBRON/(REGISTERED)/CLASS A/TRADE MARK/BOOSEY/COMPENSATING PISTONS/BOOSEY & Co./MAKERS.LONDON/93319/Guaranteed/British Made/Throughout. The bell decoration also includes the trumpet and banner device and engraved floral motifs. The numbers 16, 17 and 18 are stamped onto the first, second and third valves respectively, and the number 2784 is stamped on the lower section of the second valve casing.
caption: Lateral view from right of object no. 2004.801.
caption: Lateral view from left of object no. 2004.801.
caption: Detail showing inscription on bell of object no. 2004.801. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | Brass Bands cork City of Westminster Boosey & Hawkes metal Leisure silver Musical Instrument Making Work brass plating cornets 423.232.11 Valve horns with narrow bore with short air column (less than 2 m) | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-122745 | Go to resource |
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