Trumpet or wide-mouthpipe cornet à pistons. Nominal pitch: B♭.

Gautrot

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Instrument

Valve trumpet

Instrument Family

Wind

Maker

Gautrot

Place Made

Europe ; France ; Western Europe

Date Made

Post 1845, probably c 1850

Description

Technical description: Brass; bell forward form. The bore profile, with no expansion in the first half of the tube, is closer to that of a trumpet than to that of a cornet or saxhorn. The short form, however, is not typical of a trumpet. Shanks and crooks would not appear to have been intended, since the mouthpiece receiver is not set back. It is not known what name would have been used for this instrument by its maker or original users. Valve type: 3 Berlin valves. Inscribed on bell with trademark: shield, surmounted by crown, flags on either side, spray of leaves below / Gautrot Breveté / A PARIS". Usable pitch: c 30 cents below A⁴ = 440Hz. Overall size: 322; bell 128. Sounding length: minimum 1348. Bore: mouthpipe (minimum bore) 11.25; centre of valve cluster at c 142mm from mouthpiece receiver, 1st v.t.s. bore 11.6, (2nd v.t.s. stuck), 3rd v.t.s. bore 11.8; m.t.s. at c 442mm from mouthpiece receiver, tuning-slide bore 11.8; at 674mm from bell end, c 11.6; at c 355mm from bell en d, 16.4; at 14.8mm from bell end, 75.2. B = 0.71. Bell cutoff = 1500 Hz. Dia of mouthpiece receiver: m.r.t. 11.3, not tapered.

Notes

L.D. Haigh, 1.10.85; R. Parks, 5.12.92; Arnold Myers, bore 4.1.98; T.R. Hewat 4.4.94.

Measurements

322; bell 128.

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

0219

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