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Cornet in B-flat

about 1850
Object Place: France

Medium/Technique Brass
Dimensions Length: 30 cm (11 13/16 in.)
Bell diameter: 11.3 cm (4 7/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Robert Hazen
Accession Number2012.945
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsMusical instrumentsAerophones

DescriptionThree Stoezel valves. Original shanks for B-flat and A; original crook to F; and associated non-original shanks. Associated (?) mouthpiece.
ProvenanceBefore about 1998, Robert Sheldon, Moultonborough, New Hampshire; by about 1998, sold by Sheldon to Robert M. Hazen, Bethesda, Maryland; 2012, gift of Hazen to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 28, 2012)