Mouthpiece for cornet.

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Instrument

Mouthpiece/Mouthpieces/Mouthpieces/Musical Instrument ; Mouthpiece

Instrument Family

Mouthpieces

Date Made

1850-1900

Description

Technical description: German silver; cup, rim and throat have been crudely modified with soft solder. Cup volume 1046; shape quotient 1.118. Overall size: length 64.8; external diameter 25.0. Sounding length: cup depth 7 (not original). Bore: cup diameter 16.8 (not original); minimum diameter 3.4. Depth of taper: shank depth 36.6. Diameter of taper: maximum 10.0; minimum 8.8. No inscriptions. Decorative features: narrow knurled band at top of shank. Cup interior apparently altered: possibly filled in and turned to give a shallower cup. Purchased with cornet in Bb etc (216).

Notes

Raymond Parks, 2004, 31.8.95; Arnold Myers, June 1995; Arnold Myers, Nadine Parks, Jul/Aug 1990.

Measurements

length 64.8; external diameter 25.0.

Provenance

Purchased in 1983 with assistance from the Government's Local Museums Purchase Fund and the University's General Council Trust.

Collection

MIMEd ; Glen Collection

Accession Number

0641