Antique Musical Instruments/holton-clarke trumpet?or corinet?

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I have an old Holton-Clarke trumpet...or maybe a corinet. I read that it was probably a corinet because of the holton-clarke model name. How can I find out the age. The serial# is :63922. Thanks

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Herbert Clarke was a famous cornet soloist with the Sousa Band.  He didn't like trumpets, and didn't consider them suitable for solo work.  So, I would certainly think that you have a cornet.  Basically, at that time the trumpet was a different instrument than the modern trumpet.  It was much more cylindrical throughout the tubing and had a much brighter sharper sound, more suited to fanfares than serenades.

It appears to have been made in 1930.

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