Meredith B-Flat Cornet
date: label: date made
content: 1909-1915
name: label: maker
content: Meredith, Z. Albert
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This cornet was made by Z. Albert Meredith in Marion, Ohio around 1912 to 1915. It is a B-flat cornet, Open Tone model serial #3319, made of silver plated brass with 3 patented piston valves of a modified Périnet design having two valve loops for each valve. The extra valve loops are to compensate for supposed difference in resistance between open notes and the valve notes, rather than pitch compensation. This cornet is engraved:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>THE<br>Meredith<br>OPEN TONE<br>Cornet<br>Marion, O. <br>PAT. D<br>1909<br>1912<br> [/]3319</p>
label: Description
content: <p>This cornet features two patents issued to Meredith:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>United States Patent #939285, November 9, 1909, for a cornet.<br>United States Patent #1040372, October 8, 1912, for a cornet.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Aid
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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.70.06
label: catalog number
content: 70.06
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: 15 in x 5 in x 7 1/2 in; 38.1 cm x 12.7 cm x 19.05 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 3/4 in x 8 11/16 in x 4 7/8 in; 37.465 cm x 22.06625 cm x 12.3825 cm