Vintage Boosey Imperial Euphonium

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Vintage Boosey Imperial Euphonium

This Vintage Boosey Imperial Euphonium is a four valve compensating euphonium dating from around 1924-1925. The instrument is free blowing and all the slides move as they should. Cosmetically it has a few dings and some wear to the silver plate here and there but overall it is in good condition for its age. Includes a Besson Prototype euphonium mouthpiece and comes in its original woodshell case.

About Boosey & Co.

Boosey & Company’s history goes back 250 years to the 1760s when John Boosey founded a music lending library in London. By pioneering inexpensive editions of the classics, the company expanded rapidly, acquiring the rights to works by Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti and Verdi.

In the 1850s the company branched out into making brass and wind instruments. 1867 saw the launch of the renowned Boosey Ballad Concerts, including such favourites as The Lost Chord by Sir Arthur Sullivan, Danny Boy and Abide with Me. This success continued with the publication of works by Elgar and Vaughan Williams. In 1892 Boosey & Company established an office in New York, a business still flourishing today as Boosey & Hawkes Inc.

Hawkes & Son was founded in 1865 by William Henry Hawkes. The company followed a rival course to Boosey & Company, concentrating on band and orchestral music publishing, but also diversifying into the manufacture of instruments, fittings and reeds. Over the next 60 years, the company continued to develop its publishing activities.

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