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Rich Ita, Vintage Restoration Expert, and Fine Musician as well! |
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Nick's Links updated 03.18.2006 PocketCornets.com My new website devoted to the (very small) world of pocket cornets! JazzCor.net My new
website about my "jazz" side. I provide live music and have CD's for sale. Here are some links to resources that have been helpful to me. Rich Ita's Brass Instrument Workshop Rich specializes in the repair and restoration of vintage and professional cornets, trumpets and various other brasswinds. Rich's work exhibits wonderful craftsmanship — he did minor to major repair on many of the cornets pictured in my collection. I highly suggest you email or call Rich to discuss your prospective project!
Rich Ita's Instruments For Sale List
888.527.3601 (toll free) Manufacturers Serial Number / Date Lists http://www.musictrader.com/serialnos.html
Early F.E. Olds Serial Numbers and History This webpage and serial number research is through the efforts of Alan Rouse. He has collected an amazing amount of data on a company whose horns have attracted quite a
following among collectors and players alike. The Olds History is courtesy of Robb Stewart, a well-known vintage horn restorer and collector.
The Cornet Compendium – The History and Development of the Nineteenth-Century Cornet. An amazingly detailed site with more information about the history of the cornet than you could have imagined! Bix Beiderbecke Lithograph Print Denison Jazz Art By Richard J. Dudas This book is a great way to get an overview of the many manufacturers who constructed these fine horns we enjoy collecting. I think it's an
outstanding value, and every collector should own a copy.
Getzen Company Inc. Getzen makes the Eterna 800 and 850 cornets, which are the best-playing cornets made for the money, in my opinion.
Conn History Website By Dr. Margaret Downie Banks,
America's Shrine to Music Museumhttp://www.usd.edu/smm/
Information on Conn Instruments Good info on early Conn horns, including bore size information and model
numbers. Note: the cornet model section, while extensive, is incomplete, as it does not have models with numbers below the 46A.
Information on J.W. York & Sons http://web.calstatela.edu/faculty/jswain/brass/yorkcont.htm
Bobby Hackett Website Bobby is my all-time favorite cornet player, and was a favorite of many jazz greats such as Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Ruby Braff and even Miles Davis! This is a
great overview of his life in jazz.
"Golden Age of Brass" This is a neat article I stumbled across on the history of early brass bands. It has
some photos of very early band instrumets, primarily 19th century. Old Towne Brass - Civil War Era Horns This is a very extensive
site about rare horns dating from the 1800s, and the Civil War recreation bands that play them. There are some good photographs of these rare (and valuable) instruments. The S. E. Shires Company was founded in 1995 for the sole purpose of building custom
trombones of unparalleled professional quality. Steve Shires, owner and chief designer, has an extensive background as a professional trombonist in the Boston area. He has also had many years of experience as a brass
instrument technician, specializing in custom modification of instruments for professional clients, and has worked as a design consultant to several brass instrument manufacturers. He now brings his extensive background
and experience as a performer and craftsman to his own workshop, devoting himself to the custom production of world-class instruments.
Warburton Music Products Terry Warburton makes some of the most popular mouthpieces around, and many of his cornet mouthpieces have the deep cup design required to get that disctinctive tone from
vintage cornets. He also makes custom mouthpiece — for example, a mouthpiece that duplicates the external shape of an Olds "large shank" mouthpiece (necessary for 30s, 40s, and many 50s Olds cornets) with the
modern rim, cup and bore characteristics of my usual "player" mouthpiece, a Yamaha 9E.
Brass Resources This page has dozens of links to
other brasswinds sites. If the site isn't here, it probably doesn't exist! |
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New "Echo Bell" Cornet Page! See several examples of these unsual cornets with two bells! |
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