This is an extraordinary six-keyed bugle by METZLER & SON. The company METZLER was founded in 1788 by Valentin METZLER (c.1756-1832). His son, George Richard (1797-1867), joined the business in 1816 and the name changed to Metzler & Son. Valentin died in 1832, so in 1833, the firm’s name changed...
A rare and extremely collectable Cornet a Pistons (cornopean) in B-Flat by the famous maker, (Marcel) Auguste RAOUX (1795-1871).Auguste Raoux was the last generation of a very famous family of instrument makers, spanning from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries – five generations in all. They were master horn makers...
This delightful piccolo in C was made by the renowned Berlin-based maker Emil RITTERSHAUSEN. Carl Emil Cäsar RITTERSHAUSEN (1852-1927) worked for Boehm & Mendler before setting up his own workshop in his native Berlin. His Boehm flutes and piccolos were much in demand by professional flutists worldwide. His partnership with...
This beautiful ebony flute was completely restored.It is stamped with the marks of Carl August KLEMM (1769-1830). He was born in Plauen in Saxony, Germany. He was a university dance master. In 1806, he founded a musical instruments shop in his home town and then relocated his home and shop...
This bass ophicleide was made perhaps around 1840 in Paris by the August G. GUICHARD workshop. This important maker would very much influence the development of brass instruments. Hand-made as well as mass-produced brasswinds were produced. Guichard even patented an ophicleide with valves known as the “Ophicléide à piston” –...
This boxwood fife is very old indeed. It was made around 1780–90 by one of London’s famous instrument-making families – the Cahusacs.It has certainly stood the test of time marvellously –the boxwood looks wonderful, the tone-holes perfect and the embouchure intact. It has a new head cork. It even has...
This Schwedler-style flute was made by Robert Oswald ADLER (1865-1946). ADLER is another famous surname in German woodwind instrument making. Robert Oswald was born in Hermsgrün in Vogtland, Germany. He learnt how to make woodwinds with his father Johann Gottlob Adler (1825-1900) and spent some time working in Magdeburg for...
This reform flute was made by V. KOHLERT SÖHNE. The Kohlert company was founded in 1840 by Vincenz Ferarius KOHLERT in Graslitz, now Kraslice in the Czech Republic. At the turn of the century, the company changed names to V. Kohert Söhne when Vincenz Ferarius died and was then under...
Ever seen a flicorno before? We haven’t! This really special combined B-flat & F flicorno is one of a kind! Two flicornos in one!A flicorno is Italian and can be described as a variety of saxhorn and flugelhorn used in military bands. This particular one was made by the Ferdinando...
The maker of this bassoon was Ignaz HUITTL. He was active making instruments around 1800 in the city of Kraslice (Graslitz in German), which is now located in the Czech Republic. It is just a stone's throw away from the instrument-making hub of Markneukirchen in Germany. It seems that Huittl was...
