Personally, I think he found it at a garage sale/estate sale and was just feeding me a bunch of BS about playing it professionally.
Baritone besson serial numbers professional#
I can't imagine any professional allowing his working horn to get into this kind of disgusting condition. The funny thing is, I purchased this horn off of Craigslist from an retired guy who claims to have played this instrument professionally for 30 years.
Baritone besson serial numbers serial numbers#
It's not even seated properly, as the cap is about 1 thread higher. Besson Serial Numbers Trumpet Third Character (number) indicates year of decade, reading directly. Fourth Character (number) indicates group as follows: 1 - Cornet 2 - Trumpet 3 - Alto 4 - French Horn 5 - Mellophonium 6 - Valve Trombone 7 - Slide Trombone 8 - Baritone - Euphonium 9 - Tuba 10 - Sousapone The remaining four numbers constitute.
I did manage to remove valves 2, 3 and 4, the corrosion on valve #2 worries me.I can't get the cap off of the first valve to remove it. Third Character (number) indicates year of decade, reading directly. There's a mouthpiece adapter frozen in the receiver, the valve caps and bottoms are frozen and about half the tuning slides are stuck as well. The buildup of gunk in the lead pipe is horrific. Two F.X.Hller & Co, Graslitz Czechoslovakia baritone horn with jazzy World logo. Serial numbers 41259-65748 main sequence apparently complete Victory models 58450-63266 not present. I gave it a warm bath last night and let it soak appears to not have been cleaned for at least 30 years. I was hoping to replace my old baritone with this. Besson star Brevette bottom of second valve, Made in England.
I just picked up a used Besson euphonium and was hoping there's someone on this forum knowledgeable in this area who can tell me what I have and if it's worth getting fixed up/restored. I just purchased a B flat, Baritone Front facing removable Bell.