Cornet cleaning

This evening, cleaned the coronet, including wiping off and oiling the valves and the pipe-y things that come off for tuning & cleaning. Pretty good condition, although though the piston nearest the mouthpiece gets stuck, despite the oiling. I think the hole is out-of-round, as I can hear and feel it grinding. I need to get that looked at; hopefully not too expensive to fix (some specialized gradually-taped cone-shaped wedge?).

Also lacks a spit valve on the main, and also on the long front, loops of tubing. Supposed to be an indicator of a lower-end instrument. However, it can also indicate it's super-high quality, as some fancy-folk think that including spit valves can damage the tone. But it's probably not; it's probably a ''student'' coronet (which is still useful, for my purposes).

Looked thru five different ''encyclopedia of musical instruments'' I have: a few included the coronet, but none mention a pocket trumpet. But a Google image search on ''pocket trumpet'' indicates that, yes, that's what the second one is.

Gave the coronet a few toots. Sounds good! :)


--GG