Couturier B-Flat Cornet
date: label: date made
content: 1918-1923
name: label: maker
content: Couturier, Ernst A.
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This cornet was made by Ernst A. Couturier in La Porte, Indiana around 1918 to 1923. It is a B-flat cornet, serial #10374, made of silver plated brass with 3 piston valves, and is made with a continuous conical bore patented by Couturier. This cornet is engraved:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>CONICAL BORE<br>PAT'D.<br>E. A. Couturier Co.<br>La Porte, Ind.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>This cornet features United States Patent #1,000,049, awarded to Couturier on September 23, 1913, for “Improvements in Cornets.”</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Ernst Albert Couturier (1869-1950) was a well-known American cornet player of the 1880s and 1890s. Couturier began working at the Frank Holten Company in 1907. He began his own brass instrument company in 1916, with partners Melvin G. Lathrop and William N. Barlow. In 1923 the Couturier company was bought by Lyon and Healy, and stopped making instruments in 1929.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Indiana, La Porte
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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 Robert Erickson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.70.07
label: catalog number
content: 70.07
label: accession number
content: 287589
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: 19 in x 4 1/2 in x 7 1/2 in; 48.26 cm x 11.43 cm x 19.05 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 1/4 in x 4 1/2 in x 6 in; 48.895 cm x 11.43 cm x 15.24 cm