after that.Īnyway, just for fun I did some work on the clarinet. This list is based on searches of the archives of the Besson/Boosey & Hawkes Edgware factory when it was shut down in 2001 by the acquisition of the Besson manufacturing from Boosey & Hawkes by the The Music Group.
Besson serial numbers serial numbers#
My friend's clarinet was serial 1717 which would make it about 1860 by that chart, but other references say that before 1895 the company was marked F. Here is another list of Besson Serial numbers from the Horniman Museum. The is a serial chart for brass for Besson here - but no idea if it is a single serial for all instruments. There is some history of Besson in the PDF mentioned above, as well as on their website. Not sure I explained that very well - wish a took a photo! The upper joint tenon was also metal lined for the length of the tenon, and it all fitted perfectly and smoothly together.
The barrel was fully metal lined and the lining continued right down to the bottom of the barrel, so at the joint with the UJ, there was a sleeve continuous with the barrel bore that fitted inside the UJ tenon as well as the barrel mortice being metal lined too, that went over the cork of the UJ tenon. It was an old, dry Besson, but nice wood and really well built. Just a couple of weeks ago, a friend mentioned that that had an old clarinet and he brought it to me to look at. Post #1 of this thread mentions Besson & Co. The drop-downs make things look an awful lot cleaner.
Besson serial numbers serial number#
The reason why I did the drop-down menu thing is because I could have one manufacturer that has a model page, a clarinet serial number chart, a flute serial number chart, an oboe serial number chart and something else (I've been toying with adding links, too), but you might have another manufacturer that just has a sax serial number chart. Of course, you could just use Internet Explorer: it'll just ask you if you want to allow the pop-up. I only have FlashBlock, AdBlock and IETab. The company was formed in 1837 by, who at the age of 18 produced a revolutionary design of which surpassed all contemporary models. It is owned by, which bought Besson in 2006 from.
Mind you, there are also lots of Chrome Extensions (plug-ins) that do pop-up blocking, too. Brass instruments bearing the Besson name that were manufactured by Boosey & Hawkes (the UK instruments with serial numbers 185200 - 890008) can be found in the. (February 2017) Besson Genre Musical instrument manufacturers Founded 1837 Headquarters Website Besson is a manufacturer of. If you go to the TOOLS menu (it's the thing that looks like a little wrench), click on the UNDER THE HOOD tab and click on the CONTENT SETTINGS button, there's a tab for POP-UPS.Īll you have to do is click on the EXCEPTIONS button and allow my websites, o and 208.95.77.77. Click to expand.What's happening is that Chrome - and I'll have to check out Iron, TTT - has a pop-up blocker on by default.