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Frank Holton & Company, founded in 1896, is still an active brand of Conn-Selmer, but no longer manufactures tenor brass such as the “Falcone Model” baritone of the late 70s. Buescher Band Instrument Company manufactured tenor brass in Elkhart Indiana from 1894 – until being sold to Selmer (now Conn-Selmer) in 1963.
The larger bell produces the mellow tone of a standard euphonium; the second smaller bell has a brighter tone, similar to a baritone horn or valve trombone. The instrument is sometimes dismissed as a novelty, but has had some enthusiastic adherents, including few professional musicians using it as their sole or primary instrument.
Buescher Aristocrat: Before the Selmer buyout, this was a professional trumpet a step down from the Truetone. It was changed to a student horn after 1963. Buescher 400 Truetone: This was a more modern sounding trumpet, suited for big band jazz, that came in three models: brass with nickel trim; silver plated brass; and one in silver plate with ...
By 1922 the company incorporated, [6] had 10 employees [2] and moved into a small factory at 237 E. 41st Street in New York. [6] In 1924 Bach began producing cornets and trumpets under the Stradivarius by Vincent Bach Corporation name. [2] [7] In 1928, tenor and bass trombones were added to the product line as the company expanded and relocated ...
The bass-baritone eventually supplanted the baro-tone as the primary baritone voice, and is no longer called a bass-baritone, but simply just a "baritone." The baritone has been made available in single D piston configuration with either a slip slide, F# rotary, F rotary, or E rotary valve, two piston, or three piston.
trumpet, cornet, flugelhorn, soprano trombone: F 3: 6 ft (1.8 m) F mellophone: E ♭ 3: 6.75 ft (2.06 m) alto horn, alto trombone, alto trumpet B ♭ 2: 9 ft (2.7 m) tenor and bass trombone, baritone horn, euphonium, B ♭ horn, bass trumpet, natural trumpet, B ♭ mellophone: F 2: 12 ft (3.7 m) French horn, contrabass trombone, cimbasso: E ...
Hornbostel–Sachs classification: 423.121.22 (Natural trumpets – an aerophone, with vibrating air enclosed within the instrument, the player's lips cause the air to vibrate directly, the player's lips are the only means of changing the instrument's pitch, the instrument is tubular, the player blows into the end of the tube, the tube is bent or folded, the instrument has a mouthpiece)
A fanfare trumpet, also called a herald trumpet, is a brass instrument similar to but longer than a regular trumpet (tubing is the same length as a regular Bb trumpet but not wrapped), capable of playing specially composed fanfares. Its extra length can also accommodate a small ceremonial banner that can be mounted on it.