Halari Cornet
date: label: date made
content: 1845
name: label: maker
content: Halari
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This cornet was made by Halari, France around 1845 to 1855. It is made of brass with red lacquer and gold leaf inside the bell. This cornet has 3 Stölzel piston valves and accessioned with 3 tuning shanks in “si” (B-flat, “sib" (B-flat at a lower pitch), "la” (A), and 5 tuning crooks in “la.b"(A-flat), "sol” (G), “fa" (F), “mi” (E), and "mi.b" (E-flat coupler added to the E crook). It is engraved:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>HALARI BREVETE A PARIS</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Jean Hilaire Asté (1775-1840) was a French music professor and instrument maker. In 1804, founded the maison Halari (also known as Halary).</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Jean Louis Antoine (1788-1861) succeeded Asté in 1840 and continued to use the name Halari. His son, Jules Leon Antoine (1827- after 1872) took over the business and sold the company to Comte et Cie in 1873, led by François Sudre.</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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.76.28
label: accession number
content: 1977.0294
label: catalog number
content: 76.28
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cornet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: lacquer (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/2 in x 5 in x 8 in; 29.21 cm x 12.7 cm x 20.32 cm