![]() ![]() The resultant Buffet-Crampon company controlled those plus Courtois and York. The Meinl family and Triumph Adler, which already owned B^S and other post-collective East block firms, acquires most of the brands including Buffet and Besson. Besson designs and tooling were deliberately destroyed and the name moved to a new line of instruments built in India and other locations.Ģ006: The Music Group becomes insolvent. Besson continues.Ģ003: The Music Group, a venture capital entity, restructures the Carl Fischer companies. (This is the end of direct production of F.Besson horns)ġ980: Donald Benge teams with Zig Kanstul and Byron Autrey to develop Benge style (French Besson style) trumpets for stencil under the Burbank name and also after 1981, the Kanstul name.ġ981: Buffet is acquired by Boosey & Hawkesġ986: Boosey & Hawkes is acquired by Carl FischerĢ001: Carl Fischer’s extensive conglomerate of instrument makers shut down names including B&H. All Besson records and tooling there are lost. He is promptly provided Gustav Heim’s spare 1914 LP New Holton Trumpet demonstrator.ġ930: Elden Benge begins building modified Bessons and then his own horns in the same style, he continues evolving this school of design with the help of Schilke, Autrey and Busch through the end of his life.ġ931: Francois Millereau, a former Besson employee, sells his trumpet making business to Henri Selmer.ġ932: Fontaine-Besson is acquired by Strasser Margaux & Lemaireġ948: Besson (the English firm) is acquired by Boosey & Hawkesġ957: An insolvent SML sells Fontaine-Besson to Couesnonġ969: An arson fire reduces the Couesnon plant to a pile of broken block and twisted steel. His wife restarts the firm, continuing the same serial numbersġ867: (or before) The French firm introduces a new concept of a pitch change slide at the last bend of the lead pipeġ880: (or possibly very shortly before) The French firm introduces the first modern wrap valve trumpet, pretty much what people call a Brevete model (though that is not a model name)ġ890: The French firm changes names to Fontaine-Besson as a result of a marriage in the familyġ894: The English firm is sold out of the Besson familyġ914: Austrian deserter Vincent Bach lands a job as assistant principle trumpet in Boston using a Besson cornet. Let's add some core content.ġ838: AG Besson builds his first Perinet valve cornet in Franceġ858: AG Besson loses a lawsuit and relocates to England. OK, here's one of those content threads we have been talking about. ![]()
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