Boosey 4 Valve Compensating Euphonium

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Boosey 4 Valve Compensating Euphonium

This Boosey 4 Valve Compensating Euphonium dates from around 1905. This was originally a high pitch instrument that has been converted to play standard 440Hz and it looks like they did a good job of it. Cosmetically it is in very good condition especially when you consider its age. All the slides move freely as they should and it blows suprisingly true for an instrument of this vintage. Comes supplied with a Kosikup mouthpiece and in a period (possibly the 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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