
This chart is primarily intended to help with the identification of Sovereign Cornets but will help with Identifying other Boosey and Hawkes made brass instruments. the rolling wilkinson bridge was raised by two rings of wood to to the neck being higher than usual (first build). It had been customised with an EMG humbucker pick up and a small microswitch added. #1967 olds cornet serial numbers serial#īesson (London) stock book of cornets for 1891 showing new items added to stock.#1967 olds cornet serial numbers serial number#.It is A=457 so not much use, but nice to get it working smoothly again. after that.Īnyway, just for fun I did some work on the clarinet. My friend's clarinet was serial 1717 which would make it about 1860 by that chart, but other references say that before 1895 the company was marked F. The is a serial chart for brass for Besson here - but no idea if it is a single serial for all instruments. There is some history of Besson in the PDF mentioned above, as well as on their website. Not sure I explained that very well - wish a took a photo! The upper joint tenon was also metal lined for the length of the tenon, and it all fitted perfectly and smoothly together. The barrel was fully metal lined and the lining continued right down to the bottom of the barrel, so at the joint with the UJ, there was a sleeve continuous with the barrel bore that fitted inside the UJ tenon as well as the barrel mortice being metal lined too, that went over the cork of the UJ tenon. It was an old, dry Besson, but nice wood and really well built. Just a couple of weeks ago, a friend mentioned that that had an old clarinet and he brought it to me to look at. Post #1 of this thread mentions Besson & Co. The drop-downs make things look an awful lot cleaner.

The reason why I did the drop-down menu thing is because I could have one manufacturer that has a model page, a clarinet serial number chart, a flute serial number chart, an oboe serial number chart and something else (I've been toying with adding links, too), but you might have another manufacturer that just has a sax serial number chart. Of course, you could just use Internet Explorer: it'll just ask you if you want to allow the pop-up. I only have FlashBlock, AdBlock and IETab. Mind you, there are also lots of Chrome Extensions (plug-ins) that do pop-up blocking, too. If you go to the TOOLS menu (it's the thing that looks like a little wrench), click on the UNDER THE HOOD tab and click on the CONTENT SETTINGS button, there's a tab for POP-UPS.Īll you have to do is click on the EXCEPTIONS button and allow my websites, o and 208.95.77.77. Click to expand.What's happening is that Chrome - and I'll have to check out Iron, TTT - has a pop-up blocker on by default.
