The Besson modèle anglais instruments (also including the 1889 “Soliste” model) were their most expensive; they featured the usual removable mouthpiece receiving shank (to allow pitch adjustment—most commonly from Bb to A), and a second tuning slide on the “leadpipe” just before the valve assembly (to change between “high” and “low” pitch—otherwise achieved by changing the main tuning slide on Courtois and many other makers’ instruments)—and, of course, the by-then traditional “shepherd’s crook.” But with their single water key and 1½ turn “wrap,” these Besson instruments, with the addition of a fixed leadpipe and a longer bell, survive as the conventional design of cornets today. Moreover, the valve assembly of the early Besson Desideratum and Concertiste of the 1870s—and especially as modified in the 1888 Concertiste design (“perce pleine”)—is the configuration seen today on the Bb Périnet-valved cornets (and trumpets) of virtually all modern makers
Antoine Courtois Trumpet Serial Numbers
Antoine Courtois Evolution III Bb Trumpet: $1,620. This is an Antoine Courtois Paris Evolution III Bb Trumpet. Serial number #1097. R kelly cookie zippy download. This has been a very beloved. This Antoine Courtois, #6935 was difficult to date by its serial number. However I found on the site Horn-u-copia that #4898 was from 1951 and the next datable trumpet was from 1970 with serial #15600. A rough guide for this trumpet, therefore, would be 1954. All existing Kanstul French Besson trumpets have 3, 4 or 5 digit serial numbers (got to about 7,000 by 1998, now at around 40,000). Many non- Kanstul Bessons have 6 digit serial numbers or longer. If you see a 6 digit or longer serial number on a French Besson trumpet I’m guessing that it is not a Kanstul French Besson, but the 609. RARE WONDERFUL ANTOINE COURTOIS PARIS TRUMPET IN Bb YEAR1930 Musical Instruments & Gear, Vintage Musical Instruments, Vintage Brass eBay!
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Niles Eldredge is a Curator in the Department of Invertebrate Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. 'The French Connection' is the abstract of the paper he will present at the joint American Musical Instrument Society and Historic Brass Society meeting to be held in Toronto in November, 2000. His most recent books are The Pattern of Evolution (1999) and The Triumph of Evolution..and The Failure of Creationism (May, 2000), both published by W.H. Freeman.
Niles Eldredge is a Curator in the Department of Invertebrate Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. 'The French Connection' is the abstract of the paper he will present at the joint American Musical Instrument Society and Historic Brass Society meeting to be held in Toronto in November, 2000. His most recent books are The Pattern of Evolution (1999) and The Triumph of Evolution..and The Failure of Creationism (May, 2000), both published by W.H. Freeman.