POST-CIVIL WAR ROTARY VALVE CORNET

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Item Code: 1268-172

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An unmarked, very good example of the rotary valve cornet, made in brass, and measuring 18” overall. These were introduced about 1830 and replaced keyed bugles in military bands in the 1850s. This has a mouthpiece marked “Germany” with it that is clearly post Civil War, but also shows the typical later construction using a separately made bell, without garland, attached to the tubing by a radial seam running around the circumference of tubing some distance back from end. This appears to be complete, shows no dents or dings to the tubing and show a medium patina to the brass with just some thin age stains.

Military, private, and commercial brass bands continued to be popular in America after the Civil War, all through the 1870s, 80s and 90s. Garofalo and Elrod in “A Pictorial History of Civil War Era Musical Instruments & Military Bands” quote an interesting 1889 article from Harpers Weekly titled “The Military Bands of the United States:” "The evolution of the present military or brass bands in the United States from the crude organizations of a quarter of a century ago has been rapid and marked.... Despite the humorous and sarcastic depreciation they have received from the press, the military bands of this country are doing a great educational work among the people. They dispense both the popular and higher class music of the day in remote sections where the inhabitants are unable to hear them at first hand, and without their local band they would perhaps never hear them at all.... In parts of the South good military bands are unknown, owing for one thing, to the dearth of acceptable reed and brass performers. Throughout the Eastern and Middle States hundreds of excellent brass bands exist, and then there are others which, to put it mildly, should not be taken seriously.... In the West many of the older bands have rosters of matchless musicians, and some of the more recently organized bands are forging ahead perfectionward with the usual Western vim…”

It seems we couldn’t get more late nineteenth-century American than joining a brass band.  [sr][ph:m/L]

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