ANTIQUE CORNET, ORNAMENTAL OR FOR RESTORATION Start Price GBP 0.99 Current Price GBP 175.00 Time Left - Bid Count 17 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Monday, November 17, 2008 End Time Thursday, November 27, 2008 Location Derby, Derbyshire See more about 'ANTIQUE CORNET, ORNAMENTAL OR FOR RESTORATION' Description ANTIQUE CORNET REQUIRES ATTENTION TO VALVES ETC. COMPLETE BUT WITH SIGNS OF WEAR AND TEAR NICE ORNAMENTAL VALUE OR FOR RESTORATION / SPARE PARTSOn 21-Nov-08 at 02:51:09 GMT, seller added the following information:Thanks to     for the information, please take a look at: http://www.usd.edu/smm/UtleyPages/StoelzelValveTrumpetsandCornopeans/Stoelzelvalve6813.html Very similar cornopean at South Dakotas National Music Museum below: Unsigned. Production number 6907 stamped on second valve casing, all three valve caps and the pistons; L.P. (low pitch) stamped on receiver ferrule of B-flat shank. Four-piece, double-loop brass body with tuning slide on second bow; shank/crook required. Overlapping tab seam with gusset (width of tabs 1.5 mm at a distance of 20 mm). French rim, iron wire insert. Brass ferrules with one engraved line adjacent to the edge. Three later model Stölzel valves in normal order. Spring enclosed in barrel; guide pin alignment of piston. Right-handed. Brass touch pieces. Internal slide tubing. Windway: third, second, first valve. Accessories: German-silver mouthpiece (not original); brass shank for B-flat (probably not original); old black leather case (not original). It is likely that this cornopean was originally equipped with many more shanks and crooks. Sounding length: 1281 mm (B-flat, including shank); internal diameter receiver: 12.1 mm; internal diameter receiver minimum (at 29 mm): 9.4 mm; bore diameter: 11.7 mm (inner valve slides); internal diameter receiver shank: 9.4 mm; bell diameter: 110 mm. The country of origin of this instrument cannot be established with certainty because it is patterned after the widely copied Parisian cornet à pistons model.On 21-Nov-08 at 08:30:18 GMT, seller added the following information:Picture of valve added. Please note, the information added recently refers to and almost identical cornopean in the National Museum, the picture showing an instrument vertically is the one in the museum, the one in the sale is lying horizontally, the valve picture is also of the one in the sale. Place a Bid!