Cornet de poste or cornet simple, nominal pitch: C etc
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Alternative TitleCornet de poste or cornet simple. |
InstrumentPost horn/Horns/Wind/Musical Instrument ; Post horn |
Instrument FamilyWind |
MakerCharles Kretzschmann |
Place MadeStrasbourg ; Europe ; France ; Western Europe |
Date MadeAnte 1812 - c.1870; probably c.1830 |
DescriptionCircular post horn made of brass. Pitched in C with crooks for B♭ and F. The tuning-slide allows the instrument to play in B♮ or A. The classical post-horn without valves or finger-hole. Sounding length: minimum 1278; overall air column length of crooks: (a) 175 (1 coil), (b) 611 (2 coils). Bore: crook (a) at c 20mm from mouthpiece receiver, 8.3; crook (a) at distal end (minimum bore), 7.2; crook (b) at c 30mm from mouthpiece receiver, 8.2; crook (b) at distal end (minimum bore), 7.2; instrument body at c 35mm from mouthpiece/shank/crook receiver (minimum bore) 8.7; m.t.s. at c 232mm from mouthpiece/shank/crook receiver, tuning slide bore 10.0; 639mm from bell end, 10.4; c 256mm from bell end, 14.7. Dia of mouthpiece receiver: internal tapers of crooks: (a) 8.7 8.4, (b) 9.1 8.7; external tapers of crooks: (a) 8.4 8.7, (b) 8.4 8.8; shank/crook receiver taper 9.5 8.9. Usable pitch: Can be played at A⁴ 440 Hz. |
NotesArnold Myers; pitch test L. Haigh 1990, 1991; description R. Parks 20.2.93, 24.4.99, 26.11.99. Bore re-measured A. Myers 22.2.14. |
Measurements271mm (mouthpipe to bell rim); corpus diameter 155mm; bell 109mm. |
Provenanceon loan to the Collection. |
CollectionMIMEd |
Accession Number3052 |