Vintage Higham 4 Valve Euphonium

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Vintage Higham 4 Valve Euphonium

This Vintage Higham 4 Valve Euphonium is in good condition. According to the serial number it dates to 1907 and its doing well for its age. Originally a high pitched instrument, it has had a conversion to play at modern standard pitch & it plays OK. It comes supplied in a woodshell case in well used condition. No mouthpiece included.

Joseph Higham, of all the provincial British firms of brass instrument makers, was the longestlasting and the most productive and innovative, energetically competing with the major London makers – Distin & Co (later Boosey & Co, and Boosey & Hawkes) and F. Besson (later Besson Co). The firm was established in Manchester by Joseph Higham in 1842 and operated independently until 1923, and then as a subsidiary until 1939.