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Cornet à Pistons in B-flat, 1833, Paris, France, French, Brass, touch pieces of ivory, H. cm x Bell Diam. cm (11 1/4
Cornet à Pistons in B-flat, 1833, Paris, France, French, Brass, touch pieces of ivory, H. cm x Bell Diam. cm (11 1/4 x 4 5/8 in.), Aerophone-Lip Vibrated-horn, Courtois frères, The cornet was invented in France in the 1820s as a valved version of the post horn. The instrument met immediate success and soon replaced keyed bugles as a favorite among audiences. This instrument has two valves of the type invented by the German Heinrich David Stölzel (1777 - 1844) in 1814 and which bear his name
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