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Courtois frères
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 680
The cornet was invented in France in the 1820s as a valved version of the post horn. The instrument met immediate success and soon replaced keyed bugles as a favorite among audiences. This instrument has two valves of the type invented by the German Heinrich David Stölzel (1777 - 1844) in 1814 and which bear his name. Brass instruments with valves dating before 1840 are extremely rare, and this instrument, dated 1833, is one of the earliest surviving examples. Its two valves change the pitch of the instrument by lowering the pitch by a whole step and a half step respectively.
The instrument comes in its original mahogany box with the complete set of accessories: shank for Bb and A, crooks for Ab, G, and F, and two small couplers. Also included are two mouthpieces and a lyre which attaches to the rim (to hold a piece of music).
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9313. Cornet à Pistons in B-flat
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Title: Cornet à Pistons in B-flat
Maker: Courtois frères
Date: 1833
Geography: Paris, France
Culture: French
Medium: Brass, touch pieces of ivory
Dimensions: 7 1/2 × 4 5/8 × 15 1/2 in. (19.1 × 11.7 × 39.4 cm)
Classification: Aerophone-Lip Vibrated-horn
Credit Line: Purchase, Amati Gifts, 2002
Accession Number: 2002.190a–n
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Timeline of Art History
Essay
Nineteenth-Century Classical Music
Chronology
France, 1800-1900 A.D.
Museum Publications
"Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 2001–2002"
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