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By the 1960s, Olds was producing trumpets, cornets, slide and valve trombones, alto horns, mellophones, french horns, euphoniums, tubas and sousaphones. They also supplied imported woodwind instruments in the Ambassador line. Olds was the second U.S. maker to have produced over one million brass instruments.
C. G. Conn Ltd., Conn Instruments or commonly just Conn, is a former American manufacturer of musical instruments incorporated in 1915. It bought the production facilities owned by Charles Gerard Conn, a major figure in early manufacture of brasswinds and saxophones in the USA.
F.E. Olds manufactured tenor brass from 1910 until ceasing operations in 1978 with an auction of all assets. Vincent Bach Corporation while founded to manufacture trumpets and similar brass instruments, in the later twentieth century, during part of a progression of changes in ownership, did manufacture baritones. As a brand of Conn-Selmer, the ...
Reynolds would later design the extremely successful Ambassador line of brasswind instruments for F. E. Olds. [3] The H.N. White Company began producing stringed instruments in 1935. [1] Henderson White died in 1940. His brother, Hugh E. White, acted as president, [2] and his widow, Edna White, took over as president in 1941. [1]
Products: Mouthpieces, Cornets, Trumpets, Flugelhorns, Trombones; Brand names: Stradivarius, Apollo, Mercury, [7] Mercedes [6] Location: 621 East 216th Street, Bronx, New York [7] Serial numbers: 1000 – 6000/6500 (approximate) In October 1928 the company opened a factory in The Bronx to produce cornets, trumpets and trombones (both tenor and ...
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The company produced only 4000 to 4500 total instruments in each decade of the 1880s, 1890s, 1900s and 19-teens. Boston serial numbers do not appear on horns prior to 1880 and begin in the 6000s. Around 1890 the serial numbers were in the 10,000 range, in 1900 the 15,000 range, in 1910 the 19,500 range, and in 1920 the 24,500 range. [5]
Balanced action trumpets have the valve assembly set forward (170mm vs. 140mm), closer to the bell. This style of trumpet was first developed by the Henri Selmer Paris company in 1933 for Louis Armstrong, and was also famously used by Harry James, [1] who preferred the configuration because of his long arms.