There are over 400 pages of content on this website, mostly covering historical brass instruments and makers. These are all accessible through the gallery of links on my home page and some of my most recent additions are linked below. Each page includes description and photos illustrating the topic. I always invite corrections of errors that I've made or any additional information. For more about this website and my business, click "About" above.
Recently added or updated Pages:
November 7, 2024: Soprano Cornets by Antoine Courtois
October 11, 2024: Updated History of Benjamin Franklin Richardson
September 25, 2024: Antoine Courtois Cornet Serial Number List, 1853 to 1901
August 31, 2024: Antoine Courtois’ Bell Markings, 1844 to 1910
July 2, 2024: More Facts About Courtois’ Koenig’s Model Cornets
July 2, 2024: Another Olds Recording/Super Trumpet Like Uan Rasey’s
May 25, 2024: Solid Silver Soprano Made by Allen, New York
February 4, 2024: 19th Century Orchestral Trumpets by Courtois
November 11, 2023: “Convertible” Instruments by Graves & Co.
November 11, 2023: Bb Cornets with Bells Over the Shoulder by Graves & Co.
September 16, 2023: Alto Horn by Graves & Co.
March 25, 2023: F.E. Olds & Son Catalogs from the 1930s and 1940s
January 29, 2023: Henry Sibley, Boston Machinist and Keyed Bugle Maker
January 25, 2023: Olds Pocket Cornets and Trumpets
December 28, 2022: E.G. Wright, Early American Brass Instrument Maker
October 23, 2022: Early English Cornets, called “Cornopeans”
August 21, 2022: Gustave Besson’s Factory and Family
July 25, 2022: Besson Cornet #3, circa 1848
May 9, 2022: Soldering on Brass Instruments
April 14, 2022: Henry Lehnert’s Centennial Models
March 24, 2022: Keyed and Valve Bugle by Joseph Higham
March 18, 2022: Original Olds Trombone Patent by George Riblet
February 10, 2022: Another Dresden Keyed Bugle
December 27. 2021: George McFadden, New Biography
November 8, 2021: Unique Instruments by F.E. Olds & Son
September 20, 2021: Double Piston Valve Cornet by E.G. Wright
July 12, 2021: High Pitch, Low Pitch and Modern Pitch
June 21, 2021: The History of the Orchestral Trumpet of the Nineteenth Century, by Dr. Richard Birkemeier
May 17, 2021: Olds Radio and Military Model Cornets
April 3, 2021: Eb Keyed Bugle by James Keat for Graves & Co.
March 5, 2021: Rebuilding a Courtois Trumpet from 1870
March 1, 2021: Repairing Trombone Slide Action
February 8, 2021: Post Horn by Isaac Fiske, 1843
January 25, 3021: Boston Earnest Williams Presentation Cornet
January 21, 2021: Update to “Making Small Crooks”
December 14, 2020: Early German Bb Trumpet with “Vienna Valves”
July 16, 2020: Plating and Refitting Piston Valves
June 26, 2020 : More Fun Flugelhorn