I am still working on the Cavalier serial number dating system (separate thread), but have now expanded to try for a serial number system for Elkhart Band Instrument Company (EBIC). 400 Many thanks to Ray Noguera of Laconia Music Center Matt Stohrer of Stohrer of Stohrer Music Jason Dumars of Dumars Engraving and Curt Altarac of MusicMedic for the generous use of their materials on this site ©2014 Saxgourmet, an outreach of Steve Goodson Woodwinds.The screw in Norton springs were introduced, and in combination with the Snap In pads, yielded a very easy to maintain saxophone. The low B and Bb were both mounted on the left side of the bell. Aristocrat The Aristocrat was a real step forward for Buescher.This model is in great demand among classical players as it was the preference of Sigurd Rascher, who used a gold plated New Aristocrat with a 03 neck. Other than the bell engraving, it is visually quite similar to the True Tone model which preceded it.
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New Aristocrat The New Aristocrat series was a limited production transitional model produced between serial numbers 262,000 and 270,000.The last significant change in the True Tone Series was the adoption of brown rollers around serial number 270,000. Front F keys appear around 157,000, and by 200,000 the left hand pinky table had been revised to a four roller system. By serial number 78,000, Buescher saxophones had acquired the unique Snap In pad system. Around 5000, they acquired a pearl button G# key and black rollers, as well as pearl key touches on the main stacks. True - Tone The very first True Tone models, up through about serial number 5000, had dual octave keys, metal key touches with no rollers, a metal button style G#.The quality level of the Buescher horns gradually decreased after the buyout as Selmer USA began to concentrate on the student horn market. After the sale Selmer restricted the use of the Buescher trademark to selected products, and rebranded some instruments with other names. In 1926 Buescher Band Instrument Company was joined with the Elkhart Band Instrument Company (some claim that Buescher was bought by Elkhart Band Instrument), a company founded two years previously by Beardsley with Conn’s Carl Greenleaf as secretary-treasurer. Buescher was vice-president and general manager of the company until 21 January 1929 when he resigned these positions, remaining on staff as a consultant engineer. Buescher remained president until 1919 when Beardsley assumed that title. In 1916 Buescher sold a major share of his company to six businessmen including Andrew Hubble Beardsley. After the reorganization, the company limited itself to producing band instruments. In 1904 the business was reorganized and renamed the Buescher Band Instrument Company. In 1903 there was a disastrous bank crash which affected Buescher’s factory and a number of other local businesses. In March 1901 he patented a cornet unusual in that the valves were of unequal lengths. Collins, a clothing merchant, and Harry L. Main Street which made band instruments and other metal products, in partnership with John L. In the fall of 1894 he opened the Buescher Manufacturing Company at 1119 N. 1959 Buescher Instruments Catalog| After this, the Elkhart trumpet is renamed Aristocrat, same as the cornet, and they use Elkhart serial numbers until, I surmise, those valve blocks are used up. It is my belief that this catalog is the last mention of Elkhart. By serial number 78,000, Buescher saxophones had acquired the. (some claim that Buescher was bought by Elkhart Band. In 1890 while still employed with Conn, he began producing band emblems at home and was setting up his own shop. Conn’s fledgling band instrument factory, and in 1888 he was promoted to foreman. He accompanied his family to Goshen, Indiana and then to Elkhart in 1875. General History The company was founded by Ferdinand August “Gus” Buescher (born Elk Township, Noble County, Ohio 26 April 1861 died Elkhart, Indiana 29 November 1937).
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