T-shirt: NMM Cornet Patent Shirt

T-shirt: NMM Cornet Patent Shirt

National Music Museum

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New exclusive National Music Museum patent-design t-shirts!

Reproduced from patent documents in the archives of the National Music Museum, Vermillion, South Dakota, which correspond to musical instruments in the Museum’s collections. The invention of great style!

  • District® Perfect Tri ® Tee
  • 50/25/25 poly/ring spun combed cotton/rayon
  • Grey frost
  • Available in four Adult sizes:
    • S (35-37 chest)
    • M (38-40 chest)
    • L (41-43 chest)
    • XL (44-46 chest) 

Patent for the Cornet in Bb/A, 1902, by C. G. Conn, Elkhart, Indiana

This 1901 patent introduced the Conn cornet model that was cleverly named the ‘Conn-Queror.’ (The instrument would also sometimes referred to as the ‘Kryl model,’ after the Czech cornet-virtuoso Bohumir Kryl, who endorsed the instrument in 1904.)

This cornet is part of the Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999, at the National Music Museum, Vermillion, SD.


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