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
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- There are a few early Courtois trumpets without serial numbers or medals, they have the Courtois cornet-style pointed valve caps (one is on Robb's site, the Mager trumpet). All the Courtois trumpets with serial numbers have Besson style valve caps (no points). These Courtois trumpets could possibly be from right around 1900 as some of the.
- Free Worldwide Shipping. WONDERFUL ANTOINE COURTOIS TRUMPET IN C and Bb'GRAND SIECLE' 220L MODEL'Direct Air System' CIRCA 2000 WONDERFUL SHAPE. SERIAL NUMBER: 43876 (Engraved on the decond piston valve.
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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.
I'll give you a link to do your own research about this horn: www.courtois-paris.com/panneauhisto.html Antoine Courtois is the oldest continuous manufacturer of Wind Instruments in Europe, and have been played by notible soloists and performers for over 150 years. If you pick up virtually any book on the history of wind instruments, you will find his name. For those of us interested in the history of the Saxophone, the name Antoine Courtois is infamous for his law suit with Adolphe Sax over SUPPOSED patents and invention infringments. Here is a brief over view: 'Our story begins with a lawsuit between Antoine (Adolphe) Sax and Antoine Courtois. Antoine Sax, whose nickname was Adolphe, was constantly embroiled in legal wrangling over the authenticity of his inventions. He is crediting with inventing the saxophone when other fusions of ophicleides and woodwinds were already in existence, and many credited him with inventing the bass clarinet, though this instrument predated Sax by many years. To give him his due, Sax greatly improved any instrument he turned his mind to, and the saxhorn family of brass instruments was a genuine Sax creation that forever changed the world of music, displacing the keyed bugles, serpents, ophicleides, and other inferior antique junk tolerated by musicians and Sax’s peers and patrons alike (the latter of whom included Hector Berlioz and Meyerbeer). Saxhorns became a staple of marching bands, especially in the United States. If you examine photos of Civil War bands of the North and South, you will see over-the-shoulder and upright saxhorns in abundance. Coming back to the matter of the lawsuit: In 1855, Sax lost a lawsuit with Antoine Courtois, giving Courtois the right to manufacture saxhorns, which they do to this very day. This same year, a virtuoso cornetist and part-time instrument builder and designer named Herman Koenig, invented the family of horns that bears his name, and which were built by Antoine Courtois. '