Cornopeans

Neocor - Cornet-a-pistons

France
Western Europe

Brass
Possibly 1840's

Tubing is 6 feet
Neocor from ca. 1841 signet Paridaens a Paris. It has three stoelzel valves with numbers marked on each valve. This neocor displays a lyre and two crooks.

Around 1814, Heinrich Stölzel built a two-valve chromatic horn, but it was not until 1818, that Stölzel and Friedrich Blühmel patented the design of added valves to a horn. This is a four-piece, three-Stölzel valve Neocor. It has a double-loop brass body and several crooks. The spring is enclosed in the barrel at the top. Unique to the Stölzel valves is that the main tubing enters the piston from below, unlike the Périnet valves by François Périnet (patented in 1838) and the Berlin valves (developed in Berlin both in 1827 by Heinrich Stölzel and independently in 1833 by Wilhelm Wieprecht). The neocor predates the saxhorns.

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Catalog#: HWMC

http://www.blackdiamondbrass.com/tpthist/trpthist.htm; http://www.usd.edu/smm/UtleyPages/Utleyfaq/brassfaqBerlin.html http://www.usd.edu/smm/UtleyPages/Utleyfaq/brassfaqStoelzel.html#earlyStoelzel

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