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Tenor valve and slide trombone, B-flat, high pitch / low pitch
Maker: F. Besson
Distributor: Carl Fischer
Date: 1886-1887 ca.
Place Made:London, England, Europe
Model: Prototype
Serial No: 37411
SignedStamped on bell: 40 MEDALS OF HONOUR (in banners) / FB (monogram) / F. BESSON / “Prototype” / 198 EUSTON ROAD / LONDON / [five-pointed star] / C. FISCHER / 64TH AV. N.Y. / SOLE AGENT. U. STATES.
MarkingsStamped on valve casings, respectively: 9 [8] 7
Stamped within an oval on second valve casing: F. BESSON / [star] / BREVETEE / 37411
Stamped on slide receiver: 411
Stamped within an oval on second valve casing: F. BESSON / [star] / BREVETEE / 37411
Stamped on slide receiver: 411
DescriptionBesson produced several examples of this combination slide and valve trombone at precisely the same time as the C. G. Conn company in Elkkhart, Indiana, was also experimenting with this combination of valves and slides in a trombone. Neither company made many examples.
Brass. Three top-sprung Perinet piston valves, with also a traditional slide.
Brass. Three top-sprung Perinet piston valves, with also a traditional slide.
DimensionsBell diameter: 6-1/4 in (158 mm)
Primary bore: 0.445 in (11.3 mm)
Primary bore: 0.445 in (11.3 mm)
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Terms
Credit Line: Arne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Not on view
Published ReferencesByron Pillow, "Slides and valves on trombones?--Oh, my!" _National Music Museum Newsletter_40, No. 1 (Summer/al 2016): 18-19.
André P. Larson. Catalog of the Nineteenth-Century British Brass Instruments In The Arne B. Larson Collection of Musical Instruments. Ph.D. Dissertation. Morgantown, West Virginia: West Virginia University, 1974, pp. 141-144.
Larry Kitzel, dissertation, page 53, plate 57.
André P. Larson. Catalog of the Nineteenth-Century British Brass Instruments In The Arne B. Larson Collection of Musical Instruments. Ph.D. Dissertation. Morgantown, West Virginia: West Virginia University, 1974, pp. 141-144.
Larry Kitzel, dissertation, page 53, plate 57.
Object number: 00445