Besson Trombone 942 Made in England ทรอมโบน

Besson Trombone 942 Made in England ทรอมโบน

Sovereign, 13.88mm bore, 215.73mm yellow brass bell, heavy-weight brass slide, professional model.

The Besson BE942 Sovereign is a fantastic symphonic tenor trombone that was made in London, England. With a bore of 0.547″ and an 8.5″ bell, this horn was made to create a seemingly non-existent resistance.

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The merger with the London firm of Besson & Co. was a much more protracted affair. Besson adopted Boosey’s compensating pistons to replace their own Enharmonic Patented system in the mid-1920s. A formal arrangement was reached between the two firms when, commencing 29 September 1933, the former Boosey & Co. factory premises at Frederick Mews (vacated when Boosey & Hawkes moved production to Edgware) were leased to Besson & Co., who in turn vacated their old factory in Euston Road. Throughout the 1930s the design of Besson instruments often appears to have been copied from Boosey & Hawkes. From time to time the instruments were actually made for Besson by B & H, though according to the “pricing books” in the B & H archives they were cheap quality. From March 1948 the manufacture of Besson-branded instruments was moved from the old Stanhope Place factory to the Boosey & Hawkes plant at Edgware. The Besson serial number sequence was continued up to October 1954, after which instruments stamped with the Besson name were given serial numbers in the Boosey & Hawkes sequence. It was at this time that distinct B & H and Besson models were replaced by common models. For example, a “Besson” Westminster model trombone of the 1960s differed only in engraving from the B & H Regent model. The premises at Frederick Close (formerly Frederick Mews) continued as the “Band Department, Instrument Division” until 1957.8 As a company however, Besson was not completely absorbed until 1 July 1968 when the final shares were purchased.

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