Tenor trombone, B-flat, high pitch
Maker
F. Besson & Co.
Distributor
Carl Fischer
Date1899-1905 ca.
Place MadeLondon, England, Europe
ModelZephyr
Serial No.6279
SignedStamped on bell: CHICAGO / BORE / "Zephyr" / 50 MEDALS OF HONOUR (in banners) / FB (monogram) / BESSON & Co / “Prototype” / 198 EUSTON ROAD / LONDON / [five-pointed star] / ENGLAND / C. FISCHER / 6. 4TH Av. N.Y. / SOLE AGENT U. STATESMarkingsStamped on cork barrel: BESSON & CO / BREVETES / 6279
Stamped on slide receiver and upper slide: 6279
DescriptionBrass. Brass inner slides with nickel-silver stockings.
DimensionsBell diameter: 7-1/8 in (181 mm)
Primary bore: 0.450 in (11.4 m)
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Published ReferencesAndré 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. 137-139.
Larry Kitzel, dissertation, page 53, plate 54
Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Object number00435
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