I believe that's a list of English Besson serials. Besson serials seem to be hard to come. If you have a F. Besson horn with a 4 digit. Almost new Besson Concord series trumpet Bb. Serial number 546274 (1974). In very good condition. Laquer finish is 95%. All slides and valves are loose. Supplied with original trumpetcase, Original mouthpiece. Key Bb Valves: 3 with top spring 2 waterkeys slide: brass finish: bright silverplate reference tone Bb Please look carefully at each picture as photos speak a Thousand words.
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At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the manufacture of band instruments was little more than a cottage industry. Individual craftsmen made such items as key bugles, serpents and ophiecleides, most of them from materials other than brass.At that time a business was founded in Paris and subsequently established in London, which was destined to become famous throughout the world for the excellence of its brass instruments and whose name, so easily pronounced in all tongues, became synonymous with its product.This famous name is Besson. Influenced largely by Henry Distin, a virtuoso of his day and a close confidant of Sax, Saxhorns became predominant in the U.K.
And, in fact, brass bands were modelled upon Sax’s Paris band, which was remarkably similar in content to the current standard British brass band. As the English agent for Sax and a brilliant exponent, Distin did much to promote the brass band movement and worked closely with Boosey and Co., with whom he merged in 1868.
In parallel with the growth of brass band popularity, Boosey and Co. Engaged in a great deal of rewarding research, the highpoint being reached in 1874 when D. Blaikely invented his famous compensating system, which is still. At the end of the nineteenth century (1894), the Besson factory of London employed 131 workers, producing 100 brass instruments a week and no less than 10 000 musical ensembles appeared on their contract lists. In 1925, Besson purchased Quilter and Wheatstone & Co in 1940. In 1948, the group Boosey & Hawkes acquired the Besson London brand. With cutting edge design and manufacture, Besson became the leading brand of euphoniums, cornets, tenor horns, baritones and tubas.
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Extensive research enables the company to produce the best valve instruments available today, along with an initiative range of rotary valve instruments.
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