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the most continuously conical bore possible and also offered less resistance to air flow through the horn. Slides, when present, continued a conical progression by varying the wall thickness in order to achieve a movable cylindrical exterior. Those instruments built without valve slides tasked the players to bend some notes using their lips and also to rotate the horn to free the instrument of condensation during rests. The
Couturier cornet was typically available in a Bb/A model with a rotary valve for selecting the key of the horn while other makers of the era such as
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The continuous conical bore construction patented by
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Couturier did not devote much of his career to composition, but did author several works. Among these are The Maine's
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in 1885, but withdrew and took a job repairing watches in his uncle's shop. He began playing professionally in various bands in the 1880s and in 1890 began composing for band. In 1892, he became director of his first band and, in 1907, took a job at
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Couturier was known to say, "After training for breath control and technical perfection, why must we remain at the mercy of inferior instruments?” Couturier turned to instrument design to address that problem, as did
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used interchangeable tuning slides. Couturier and the company received numerous patents for conical bore instruments, a phonograph, the A/B-flat "quick change valve", and a mute design.
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where the bulk of the instruments bearing the company name were made. In 1923 Couturier's eyesight failed and shortly after the company went into receivership and was sold to
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as a promoter of their instruments. He received his first patent (U.S. patent 1,073,593) on
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with two other partners to produce brass band instruments. That firm failed after
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to a family with three other children. At the age of fourteen, he began playing the cornet. He entered the
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company as the Couturier Wizard Model, Ernst Albert Couturier bought the derelict William
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