
This site was established to provide access to my notes, ramblings, photos, tools, and favorite resources for trumpet, cornet and bugle collectors. It is a work in progress. These entries are accurate as of my current understanding, but always subject to change as I learn more. To quote Roy Hempley: “Just when you think you finally have it figured out, a horn comes along to prove you wrong”. Vincent Bach and his Trumpets, is now available in print through Amazon. This book covers the life of Vincent himself, as well as the first 100 years of his company, the major milestones in Stradivarius evolution, and features numerous illustrative examples with the details and stories behind them. A Timeline of Trumpets Second Edition, is now available in print through Amazon. With over 700 illustrations, over 400 unique models depicted, indexes by subject and model, and a variety of the tables and essays also hosted here, it is 25% larger than the first edition. Until I have time to add navagation to some of the sub-pages, please use browser back to return here.
Histories The Martin Companies Byron Autrey - the man behind the magic (pdf) Frank Holton and Co. Vincent Bach Plant changes at Bach - 2017 Col. C.G. Conn & Co. The Getzen Dynasty Harry Pedler Companies Boston Musical Instrument Co. Bohland&Fuchs stencils Sistek Music and Cleveland Ross Hickernell F. Millard Company Willard Bryant - Rex* O.F. Berdan - Detroit Connections Among Makers Getzen History Chart Fred Forman's cornet Cold War Collectives HN White - first for students HN White's first cornet product Study - Instrumental Inheritance (pdf) Evolution of the Modern Trumpet (pdf) Drum & Bugle Corps Origins Birmingham [Mi] Bands (pdf) Links to Histories by Others H.N. White Co's History of the Trumpet and Cornet (1924) Jim Donaldson's biography of Renold Schilke at EverythingTrumpet.com Niles Eldredge's Brief History of Piston Valved Cornets at Nick DeCarlis' VintageCornets.Com Dale Olson's History of F.E. Olds at Robb Stewart's site CG Conn History articles at the Conn Loyalist Contempora Corner histories of F.A. Reynolds Chris Charvat's HN White History Robb Stewart's biography of Earl Williams Jari Villenueva's History of Taps	Tools The Virtual Museum Serial Numbers Open-Box/B-stock examined Maker Links Distin serial-location chart Bore sizes and codes (pdf) Mouthpiece charts Holton Model Guide* (pdf) White/King Model Guide* (pdf) Martin Model Guide* (pdf) FE Olds Model Guide* (pdf) Kanstul Model Guide* (pdf) Vincent Bach Periods Chart Leblanc Stencil Trumpets Calicchio Trumpets Table Conn Pro Trumpets Chart Yamaha Model codes by TM'r Glennx Timeline chart of makers (pdf) * Sincere thanks and apreciation to Robb Stewart, Kenton Scott of Horn-u-copia, Rich Ita of The Brass Workshop, Fred Cirksena of Quality Brass, Shawn McKenzie of The BrassCellar, Brent Peters, crafter of Puje Trumpets, Chris Dankler and Thomas Meacham for providing photographs of models not available to the author. Trumpet Plants YouTube Video tour of the Bach plant circa 2015 with the first of new automated machining for mouthpieces. YouTube Video rapid walk-through of the Bach plant circa 2018 with all the new automation mentioned in this essay YouTube Video tour of the Yamaha Xeno Plant in Japan with Jens Lindemann. YouTube Video tour of the CarolBrass factory in Taiwan. YouTube Video tour of the Warbuton Mouthpiece factory. YouTube Video tour of the Adams factory with Darren Barrett. YouTube Video promotional piece showing operations inside Conn-Selmer Eastlake Ohio. YouTube Video of spinning a bell and still photos taken at the Taylor workshop. YouTube Video tour of the Monette shop. YouTube Video documercial shot at Getzen titled How a Trumpet is Made. YouTube Video scenes from inside the old Besson factory in France. YouTube Video scenes from inside the old Courtois factory in France just after Buffet ended trumpet manufacture. YouTube Video of a Buescher promotional movie from 1924, restored and posted by Mark Overton of SaxQuest (www.saxophone.org). YouTube Video of a C.G. Conn promotional movie from 1937, restored and posted by Mark Overton of SaxQuest (www.saxophone.org).	Resources A.M.I.S. Historic Brass Society USD National Music Museum The Musical Instrument Museum Trompeten Museum (in German) HJM Collection(Finland) The Stearns Collection Horn-u-copia ForumTromba (in Italian) BrassHistory.net The Cornet Compendium Saxophone.org catalog museum Robb Stewart Brass Nick DeCarlis' Vintage Cornets William Hull Faust Collection Olds Central The Bach Loyalist site The Conn Loyalist HN White family site Contempora Corner (Reynolds) Taps Bugler Performers Jeff Stockham Kid Dutch Nick DeCarlis Samuel Morozov Gabriel Dimartino Roger Blackburn Motor City Brass Empire Brass Retail & Repair Dillon Music The Brass Cellar Virtuosity Musical Instruments Rich Ita's Brass Instrument Workshop Oberloh Woodwind and Brass Austin Winds Austin Custom Brass Josh Landress Brass BAC Musical Instruments Puje Trumpets Mark Metzler Brass Repair Doctor Valve (S. Winans) Charlie's Brass Works Tim Holmes at a+r music in Lincoln Park Michigan who repaired many of the horns shown here. (3 Euphonium Bios too) Alfred Phasey Simone Mantia Leonard Falcone
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