^ Brass Bulletin -2002 'À l'instar des cornets de Courtois (modèles 'Koenig', 'Arban', 'Levy' et autres) qui sont abondamment copiés dès le milieu du XIXe siècle, la plupart des facteurs de cornets s'inspireront des modèles 'Desideratum' et 'Concertiste' de Besson.A batch of 40 Saxophones stolen from Dawkes Music in Maidenhead UK on July 12th, 2017. chart is primarily intended to help with the identification of Sovereign Cornets but will help with Identifying other Boosey and Hawkes made brass instruments.
Although the relationship of the intervalve portings to the placement of valve slides, and bell and leadpipe articulation to the valves, is geometrically identical in both the Desideratum and the Concertiste. 1967 olds cornet serial numbers serial Besson. the Desideratum was their second most expensive. In 1948, the group Boosey & Hawkes acquired the Besson London brand. In 1925, Besson purchased Quilter and Wheatstone & Co in 1940. Thompson, François Tonneau Perspectives in Ethology: Evolution, Culture, and Behavior 2000 - 'Whereas the Concertiste was Besson's most expensive model, at least from the 1890s to the advent of World War I. 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.
Jeff Ward on Besson Euphonium Serial Numbers. Harvard University Band, owner of a triple B flat Besson, one of the largest playable Tubas in the world At the time Boosey and Hawkes made Besson and B&H instruments that were basically.There was also a model made by Framus in the Besson name designed by jazz guitarist Jack Durante.
These guitars were imported and often rebranded. Besson guitars were produced in the 1950s. of 2 - Clarinet Serial Numbers - posted in Viva Woodwind: Can anyone tell me what year a Boosey and Hawkes clarinet with serial number 380084 dates from Have tried Googling it, but all the available lists stop short of this one.