362094 besson serial numbers
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It is 19 1/2" long (18 7/8" from bell rim to bell curve) without mouthpiece, the bell diameter is 4 9/16" and the bore measures approximately.
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The serial number indicates that this trumpet was made before 1924. We don't know how many trumpets he may have owned before making his own.
There is at least one other Besson trumpet in existence that had belonged to Mr. Either way the mouthpipe has important history. BTW, my 1934 Mehas valves have the springs on the bottom and I think this. It appears to be accurate for prewar bessons, mehas, and brevetes. I found this info at the elstub enterprises music site.
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It has a seam as seen in all original early Besson trumpets, but the same is true of Benge mouthpipes made in Chicago. Besson Tuba Serial Numbers After several attempts over the past months (whew), your question spurred me to give it another shot. The tuning slide crook might be a replacement. The braces between the bell and mouthpipe and first slide hook are definitely Benge parts. I can see that some of the parts are not original, but not all are obvious. I have no way of knowing if the heavy polishing was done at the Benge shop in 1970 or previous to Mr. Close examination does show that the original stamped lettering is there. This trumpet has been so heavily polished that the bell stamp needed to be engraved over to make it more legible, making it look almost as if it is a counterfeit. Most modern trumpets were originally copied from the French Besson and were manufactured from about 1885. Lou Duda, the foreman of the Benge factory and outstanding trumpet craftsman, painstakingly reassembled the trumpet and presented it to Irving Bush. Benge's death in 1960 in Burbank, California, the trumpet company was inherited by Donald and Ronald Benge and subsequently sold to the H.N. The instrument was disassembled in Mr Benge's trumpet studio in Chicago, Illinois. Besson & Co 'Prototype' 198 Euston Road London England. Date Distin & Co was owned by Boosey and Company, but continued trading. Serial numbers are widely used in dating instruments, in some cases very precisely. I've included a scan of Irv's story of this trumpet on his personal stationary below, but here is what it says: SeptemTo whom it may concern: The French Besson Bb trumpet, serial number 85419 is the instrument played by Elden Benge, the first trumpet with the Chicago Symphony under the direction of Frederick Stock. (Information on Besson, Boosey, Kohler, Rudall Carte and Sax.
He had been a friend and colleague of Elden Benge from the time that Benge moved to Southern California.
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Irving Bush was a highly regarded professional trumpet player, playing with many top big bands during the 1950s and joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1962. I believe that this is important even with objects that have much less historical significance than this case. As each generation passes, the accuracy of the stories connected with artifacts become less sure unless we carefully document them. I highly recommend that owners of old instruments do their best to document them. Almost everything that I know about the history of this trumpet I was told was told by Irving Bush, so I asked him to write it down for me.