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CHAPTER 7
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Below appears information which may help in researching brass instruments, specifically the cornet. Inclusion here is not necessarily an endorsement of any of the information listed, but merely given here for research and information reasons only. Links will be periodically updated on the Internet.
Photographic Sources
A site which has many photographs and lists of cornets and other early brass instruments is the University of Edinburgh Instrument Collection. The National Music Museum site also has some photographs, but it is also a research site. There are also a few brass instruments on the site for the Smithsonian Musical Instrument Collection.
One might also be surprised about the amount of pictures that appear on many of the auction sites on the web. They have items which change on a daily basis, so one can get a different set of pictures almost weekly.
General or Research Sites
Below is a list of some of the many sites available. Some of these addresses might not be accessible on all search engines, so some obvious key words might help, e.g. Musical Instrument Collections, Brass Instruments, Cornet, etc.
1) The Home Page for The Historic Brass Society site is
http://www.historicbrass.org and has links to many other interesting sites.
2) The University of Edinburgh Instrument Collection site can be reached through:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed
3) The National Music Museum site, as mentioned above, is
https://www.nmmusd.org/visit-us
4) Conn History Web Site is
https://trumpet-history.com/Conn%20History.htm
5) The Kenneth G. Fiske Museum Home page is
http://www.artcom.com/Museums/newones/91711-52.htm
6) The address for the International Trumpet Guild is
7) The home page for the American Musical Instrument Society is
8) A Guide to Music Research and Finding Music Resources is
https://guides.libraries.indiana.edu/findingmusic/databases
9) Try the home page for University of Edinburgh Internet Resources
https://library.ed.ac.uk/finding-resources/subject-guides/science-techno/internet
10) The homepage of the Horniman Museum is
11) The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture can be found at
https://borrow.nypl.org/search/card?id=fdcfe2d5-3b73-11ec-9bf8-8fb6f7056631&entityType=Agent
12) The homepage of Brass Instrument Guide Brass Resources is
https://musiknerd.org/en/musical-instruments/brass-instruments/
https://promusicvault.com/brass-instruments/
14) Brass Bulletin
15) Editions Bim
16) Galpin Society
Among the many links listed at Site 7) are:
The Bate Collection of Musical Instruments, Oxford, England
Deutches Museum, Munich, Germany
Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Musée de la Musique, Cité de la Musique, Paris, France
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Musikmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden
The Schubert Club, St. Paul, MN
National Music Museum, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
William Hammond Mathers Museum at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
A Few Library Sites on the Web
Related Information
A site related to this document is Pocket Cornets by Nick DeCarlis at http://www.pocketcornets.com "The World’s Largest Virtual Museum of the Smallest Cornets and Trumpets ever made!" This site provides many photos and information about pocket cornets not normally accessible and interesting information about them. One research document appears on the site by Niles Eldredge, and one by Niles Eldredge and Arnold Myers dealing with brass instruments. There are many sites which deal with restoration of brass instruments, such as Rich Ita’s Brass Repair Workshop, which is located at http://www.brassinstrumentworkshop.com
Search words such as Brass Instrument Restoration will locate many sites that deal with restoration of brass instruments. Another site is Rob Stewart Brass Instruments at https://www.robbstewart.com/restoration/ .. There are many individuals and companies such as St. Louis Woodwind and Brass Repair stlwwbr@aol.com that do not have a website, but do have e-mail; and there are also many individuals and companies that do not have electronic access, but do brass instrument restoration as well.
Other helpful and interesting sites
(In process)
1) RIPM (Repértoire International de la Presse Musicale)
With research sites in Maryland and Europe, this is a significant site dealing with scholarly reprints of musical publications in the nineteenth century.2) Historic American Sheet Music
https://repository.duke.edu/dc/hasm
3) American Popular Music Before 1900
https://contemplator.com/america/
4) An interesting Cornet/Flugelhorn Discussion Board
https://www.trumpetherald.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=27
5) International Trombone Association
7) International Tuba Euphonium Association
https://www.history.com/news/civil-war-music-influence
9) Poetry and Music of the War between the States
10) Schaffner Publishing Company
A fine source of all types of music including newly published editions of cornet solos for A and Bb cornet, that include interesting historical and performance data.
11) Robert King Music available at Sheet Music Plus
https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/en/category/series/r/robert-king-music/?q=cornet&cgid=1303495
A source of all types of brass music in print.
12) Sheet Music Now
13) The Music Trader
This site has a list of serial numbers of many manufacturers of musical instruments of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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