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It should also be noted that for most makers, there will be examples in the catalog where the model is unknown and therefore not represented in this listing. This listing is intended to include makers where the majority of their model designations are known. Sets of instruments by Makers will be periodically added to this table. There were three styles available: Brass with nickel, Silver plate, and silver plate with nickel bell called Super 400.Apparently by 1923 there was a model 38 slide trombone These are more modern sounding and good for big band jazz.

After the traditional Truetone line of trumpets came the Buescher 400s. There are a few small dings on or around the bell area as well as a couple of very minor scratches here or there and an approximate 12mm ding on the main.

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The Aristocrat was a Truetone professional trumpet previous to the Selmer buy out and became a student horn sometime after 1963. Buescher Model BU-8 Trombone in Beautiful Shiny Condition and Ready to Play Serial Number 03XXX This is a very nice Buescher trombone that looks like it has been played for just a few seasons.

Louis Armstrong recorded with a Buescher Truetone 10-22R Trumpet in the late 1920s. There were a wide variety of Truetone models many custom made for the professional musician. Similar instruments were also produced by Gretsch and Supertone, although these could be stencils of the Buescher.īuescher Bb Truetone (Professional) was their main line of instruments during the 1920 until the 1940s. They were produced with the Albert system, and later with the Boehm System. It also produced some flutes and clarinets between 19, the Saxonette (also known as the 'clariphon' and the 'claribel'), a clarinet with a curved metal barrel and a curved metal bell pitched in A, Bb, C or Eb. It is believed that Buescher was the first company to produce them in America. Though Buescher manufactured many kinds of brass instruments, the company was known primarily for its saxophones which competed successfully with Conn and Martin. The Buescher line eventually faded and became the Bundy line. The quality level of the Buescher horns gradually decreased after the Selmer buyout as Selmer USA began to concentrate on the student horn market. After the sale Selmer restricted the use of the Buescher trademark to selected products, and rebranded some instruments with other names. In 1926 Buescher Band Instrument Company was joined with the Elkhart Band Instrument Company (some claim that Buescher was bought by Elkhart Band Instrument), a company founded two years previously by Beardsley. Buescher was vice-president and general manager of the company until January 21st 1929 when he resigned these positions, remaining on staff as a consultant engineer. Buescher remained president until 1919 when Beardsley assumed that title. In 1916 Buescher sold a major share of his company to six businessmen including Andrew Hubble Beardsley. After the reorganization, the company limited itself to producing band instruments. In 1904 the business was reorganized and renamed the Buescher Band Instrument Company. In 1903 there was a disastrous bank crash which affected Buescher's factory and a number of other local businesses. In March 1901 he patented a cornet unusual in that the valves were of unequal lengths. Main Street which made band instruments and other metal products, in partnership with John L Collins, a clothing merchant, and Harry L Long, a salesman. In the fall of 1894 he opened the Buescher Manufacturing Company at 1119 N. In 1890 while still employed with Conn, he began producing band emblems at home and was setting up his own shop. Conn's fledgling band instrument factory, and in 1888 he was promoted to foreman. He accompanied his family to Goshen Indiana and then to Elkhart in 1875. Ohio 26 April 1861 died Elkhart Indiana 29 November 1937). The company was founded by Ferdinand August 'Gus' Buescher (born Elk Township,Noble Co.

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