Cornet
Object Details
- Description
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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Leonard Wallis
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- 1840-1850
- ID Number
- MI.65.0160
- accession number
- 256636
- catalog number
- 65.0160
- Object Name
- cornet
- Physical Description
- brass (overall material)
- 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
- cornet: 10 1/2 in x 8 in x 4 13/16 in; 26.67 cm x 20.32 cm x 12.22375 cm
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
- Music & Musical Instruments
- Cornets
- Record ID
- nmah_606567
