The Virtual Museum

  of Trumpets, Cornets, and Bugles by period

 

The original Virtual Museum page was a singular list of samples ordered by manufacturer alphabetically, and release date within that. Several years ago, the web host for this site, Bluehost, made changes and became incapable of serving files containing 50 or more images. This new Virtual Museum re-orders the examples by date, within a sequence of chronologically ordered files. The examples have been ordered somewhat randomly, but strictly by year of the sample, rather than the design. This offers the chance to get a perspective of what was selling during each period. For those seeking the entire line of manufacturers, this page will no longer offer much help, but there are many model guides, with more to hopefully follow, on the home page.

 Prior to 1870

 Brass Band era (1870s into 1890s)

 Turn of the last century (1890s)

 New century (1900s)

 Cornet Innovations (Early 1910s)

 Trumpets Begin to Compete (Late 1910s)

 The Roaring 20s (1920 - 1926)

 Boom goes Bust (Late 1920s)

 Early Depression (1930 - 1934)

 Late Depression (1935 - 1939)

 Pre-post WWII(1940s)

 American dominance (1950s)

 Unrest and consolidation (1960s)

 Oil and Stagflation Era (1970s)

 End of the Century (1980 - 1999)

 New Century (2000 and beyond)



 Quick notes on Makers

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