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He received this horn as a gift in November of 1976 or 1977. He was a professional musician for over 50 years. This flugelhorn was my late Fathers. Please see attached receipt. This horn was just serviced and valued. Vintage 1976 -1977 Couesnon Flugelhorn -branded as a stencil Elkhart for sales in the USA.

The fire resulted in loss of all the company records, including those which would make it possible to determine the year of manufacture from the serial number. Now: 2,899.99.In 1978, the contract with Gretch to import Couesnon instruments to the United States was terminated and new Couesnon instruments have been very rare in the US since that time. This horn sustained some shipping damage to the bell, the pinky hook took some pressure that bent the.

Although Couesnon flugelhorns are famous for their outstanding silky jazz sound, there are many'lemons' that must be avoided. With serial76454 stands out as a superior specimen among this famous brand of flugelhorn. It looks bigger than a trumpet and in some ways it is bigger But when stretched out to its full length, a Bb flugelhorn.This Couesnon Star model flugelhorn.

Riedl was an accomplished maker of brass instruments, (rotary) valve blocks and bells and also a trader of other musical instruments. Listado de trompetistas y sus equipos de trabajoAnton Riedl was born in 1861 and established his own company in 1885. Docx), PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free.

Art Deco was a design style popular from approximately 1925 through 1939.The name Art Deco is derived from the style's origins at the the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts DГ©coratifs et Industriels Modernes (International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Art) in Paris, although the term 'Art Deco' was not commonly used until the 1968 publication of Bevis Hillier's art history book Art Deco of the 20s and 30s.Fire brigade horn Cairns & Bro 143 Grand Street New York, patented Sept 11 1877The Arigra octagonal trumpets have to be dated somewhere between 19, maybe even between 19. But most often they are referred to as Art Deco style. Friedel Keim describes them in his book Das grosse Buch der Trompete' as being inspired by the Jugenstil (Art Nouveau) style, the international style of about 1890 until 1914. In a list of German people that were expelled, Hugo is not mentioned, but Anna Riedl (49) is mentioned as owner of a factory, with a husband in Bavaria, departure provided by a train on October 11th 1946.With the formalisation of the creation of the Amati collective in June 1948 (working back till 1-1-1947) Anton Riedl was one of the confiscated companies and workshops involved.Although Riedl made other instruments (see below), he's best known for his octagonal Arigra trumpets. After WWII the German speaking population was expelled from what again became Czechoslovakia. In a list of house owners in May 1945 Hugo is still listed at the address Eibenberger Strasse 835.

That's possibly because they were handmade over a longer period of time, or maybe the parts were sourced from diffferent makers.Most often the Arigra's have a hexagonal shaped spin as the main slide brace. There also is a remarkable, not to say incredible lot of variety between the instruments, not in their overall form but in details like the bracing, the engraving, the spins, the valve blocks. Apart from their octagonal bell, the Arigra trumpets have a lot of art deco style details. This was the period in which also other examples of art deco like trumpets appear on the market.

This trumpet is also not octagonal but hexagonal in it's details. Hans HГјttl worked from 1947-1954 in South Wales were Boosey and Hawkes gave him the opportunity to look for new export markets. And like B&F the firm was confiscated in May 1945, and became part of the Amati collective. Together with Bohland & Fuchs HГјttl took care of 60% of the Graslitz export of brass instruments. Anton Konrad HГјttl (started his workshop in 1877, in 1935 some 40.000 brass instruments a year were made.

And the name Kraslice was also in use between the two wars for non-export production.This trumpet offered on Ebay in 2013 also has hexagonal valve casings and other hexagonal details and a hammered bell. It looks however very much like the above Triumph and 'pre-war. What's interesting is that it reads Kraslice instead of Graslitz, suggesting that it was made after WW II and somewhere before the start of Amati (although there seems to have been a transition period in which names like Bohland & Fuchs were used in combination with the Amati label).

Nor are the valves numbered (with the serial) as they normally are on instruments from this company. It does not have the normal, and well documented B&H serial number. Probably made in the 1930's (in any case after the merger of Boosey and Hawkes in 1930). The engraving says New Century Boosey & Hawkes Ltd 295 Regent Street, London W 1. It looks a lot like the above Triumph and the AK HГјttl, obviously missing the piece with the spin that would make it play in Bb.Boosey & Hawkes New Century source Ebay.co.ukA trumpet with hexagonal valves, valve caps and bottoms, an edgy pinky ring and lightning flash braces. Probably pre WW-II, the engraving is difficult to read, the seller's estimate is 'Zolena'.

The seller dated it between 19. They also felt that the date of manufacture is almost certainly the 1930's.On Horn-u-copia.net there's a Vickers Octagon, with serial number 2025. Conn in the US had also brought out a tight wrap trumpet at this time so it was a bit of a fashion thing. They both felt that it looked similar to models being produced in Czechoslovakia in the early thirties.

Bohland and Fuchs are established as a partnership in 1870, following the firm of Gustavus Bohland, which had been founded 20 years earlier, and flourished until 1945 when the firm was nationalized. Another clue might be a trumpet, offered on Ebay Germany in 2020, that is engraved Vickers London, with a bill dated 29-9-1952.The trumpet below is made by Bohland & Fuchs. But that's just a wild guess. Vickers and Sons, who early into the 20th century had become the principal importer of musical instruments in the UK, offering concertinas and everything else except pianos.

During the war most factories were in the war industry. Before WWII Bohland & Fuchs was one of the main brass instrument factories in Graslitz. They were the first to use steam engines in their factory before WWI.

There was quite a free exchange of ideas, patterns, and parts in Bohemia and Vogtland in these days. The seller believed the instrument was probably manufactured as an unadorned stencil by B&F in Graslitz, and then finished in Hradec KrГЎlovГ©. There is also a serial number 1459 located.

Headquarters still exists at Wenceslas Square in Prague, it's only activities now are renting out the buildingThat the Arigra was marketed after WWII also becomes clear in a Ligna catalog that is directed to the Latin American/Spanish market. The bell also says 'foreign', which confirms that it's produced outside Great Britain.The Ligna A.S. Octagonal and hexagonal details, art-deco engraving, it's all there. Dallas & Sons, who distributed the Czech B&F trumpets under the names Dearman Master, New Special, New Super.

Now over to Markneukirchen and the Exakta. Two models: the Arigra Standard with the one piece valve block and the Arigra Luxus.So far for the Czech/Graslitz related instruments. The saxofones are branded Toneking, which implies that the catalog dates before 1955 (that yearAmati had to stop using this brand in favor of Keilwerth).In this Ligna catalog the Arigra trumpets have a separate entry and are advertised as 'especially for jazz band musicians'. On the backside of the cover the brands Cremona (for guitars), Amati (for brass) and Melodia (for accordeons) are mentioned. As the catalog shows, it had a department for musical instruments, the catalog showing mainly brass instruments (but also clarinets, bassoons and oboes).

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