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Cornopean by Courtois c.1850
This
Cornopean was made by "Aug TE Courtois Aine" Brevet, Paris in the
1850s. It comes with
its original wood "coffin" case including a
multitude of crooks and tuning loops to play in almost any key. These
crooks and extensions are labled: MI; FA; SOL; LA-B; LA; and SI-B
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This Cornopean has Stoelzle Valves which were first publicly reported in 1815 and attributed as the invention of Heinrich Stoelzel (1772-1844) - a Silesian horn player. The Stoelzel valve design was patented in Berlin in 1818. These valves utilize the length of the valve itself as part of the airway- instead of merely redirecting the airway across the valve as in later designs such as the Perinet valve desigmed in Paris in 1839 - and still used on all modern valved instruments. Note that the valves are left of both the bell and leadpipe - unlike the modern cornet which has the valve cluster between the bell and leadpipe.  |
