Perinet Trompe de Chasse in non-playing condition. Perinet is best know as the inventor of the modern piston valve which is still in general use today.<\/p>\n
P\u00e9rinet was originally from Savoy. He apprenticed with instrument builder Auguste Raoux, where P\u00e9rinet took an interest in the new valved brass instruments being produced in Germany, based on the invention of valved horns by Heinrich St\u00f6lzel and Friedrich Bl\u00fchmel. In 1829, P\u00e9rinet designed a new model of the cornet, adding a third valve and allowing it to play a full range of notes. In the same year, he left Raoux and started his own business. In 1838, he patented the system of valves with staggered openings which became known as the “P\u00e9rinet system”; this is the basis for the system still used for most trumpets and brass instruments today. <\/sup>Competition with other manufacturers (notably Adolphe Sax, who held a monopoly on the supply of instruments to the military and numerous theatres, forced P\u00e9rinet to sell his business in 1857. At this point, he changed his focus away from valved instruments to building natural horns. He reopened the business as Fran\u00e7ois P\u00e9rinet, Pettex-Muffat & Cie<\/i> in 1859. The company P\u00e9rinet<\/i> still exists today, manufacturing hunting horns, although P\u00e9rinet himself had left by the early 1860s and it is unclear where or when he died.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Trompe de Chasse in non-playing condition. Perinet is best know as the inventor of the modern piston valve which is still in general use today.<\/p>\n<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":70188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[2233,2253],"product_tag":[2234],"class_list":{"0":"post-70176","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-trompe-de-chasse","7":"product_cat-vintage-brass-instruments","8":"product_tag-perinet","9":"product_shipping_class-small-item","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n