Same Old DD
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I'll bet your friend's cornet is a wonderful treasure from the past!
I have lived through some short history of wind instruments, my father being who he was and showing me how things go beginning as a small kid for me. He was alive during WWII and saw all this happen.
In light of the timeline you have described, it won't matter much the brand name of the cornet. It is truly a well made instrument.
In some ways, horn companies of those times were a lot like later stringed instrument manufacturers in that everyone knew what the others were doing and always wanted to better any movement forward by another.
A bit later on, you could not possibly know much about Leo Fender without wondering what Les Paul or Gibson, Epiphone was doing today or what CF Martin was changing and why. King, Conn, Bach, Reynolds, White all made fine instruments all those years ago. WWII kind of made using brass for something as trivial and fun as musical instruments a No Go.
Did you know that Conn switched all their machines to make electric compasses and altimeters for airplanes at the beginning of spring '42? They got right on it! They were chosen first because of their enormous stockpiles of brass alloys on hand.
Not many instruments were made in the early '40s, but once it was over, the boom was almost overwhelming, not just brass, either. Import of fabulous reeds from France and Italy, along with the engineering from recently freed peoples across Europe was the build up of a great time in the history of all wind instruments.
There are many books, but some I kept, mainly because of how closely the history actually storied my father's life. But, as you know, everyone played a part.
Still spinning a pile of Hampton, for now. In fact, the one that was playing while I was nostalgiating (if only that was a word); that one gets a re-start.
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