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conn53victor
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Location: Iowa City, IA
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 Posted: Wed May 06, 2020 4:58 pm Post subject: Old Cornet Mouthpiece Info? |
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A metal detecting friend found an unmarked old cornet mouthpiece several inches down beside the Old Capitol (built 1842) on the University of Iowa campus in Iowa City.
Any ideas about it besides, "That's an old tarnished cornet mouthpiece"?
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Andy Cooper
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Location: Terre Haute, IN USA
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just want you to know that your post was not ignored. I gave it the old DePauw University college try and looked at old patents and Iowa civil war band pictures but did not find anything. Keep in mind, the mouthpiece might also be for a bugle, or some sort of alto horn.
If you are truly interested, you might contact:
Johnson County Historical Society Museum or the State Historical Society of Iowa for links to old Civil War pictures.
You found an interesting piece of history - that's something. Someone laid out some money for it and invested a chunk of their life playing on it.
Then they lost it. |
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