Courtois B-Flat/A Cornet
date: label: date made
content: 1880-1895
name: label: maker
content: Courtois, Antoine
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This cornet was made by the Antoine Courtois & Mille in Paris, France around 1880 to 1895. It is B-flat/A cornet, Arbuckle model, made of silver plated brass with 3 piston valves with mother-of-pearl finger buttons and tuning shanks and crooks.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>This cornet model is named after Scottish immigrant, Matthew Arbuckle (1828-1883), a prominent cornet player of the era. His cornet instruction book containing instructions, exercises, lessons, and arrangements, <i>Arbuckle’s Complete Cornet Method</i> was published in 1866 and is still used today.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>This cornet bears inscriptions of Courtois and J. Howard Foote. J. Howard Foote, musical instrument dealer in New York and Chicago, was the sole Courtois importer in the United States in the 1880s and 1890s.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Cornets
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Frances J. Berggren and Judith K. Miller
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0538.01
label: accession number
content: 1981.0538
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0538.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cornet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 1/2 in x 5 in x 6 1/2 in; 31.75 cm x 12.7 cm x 16.51 cm