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It had a complicated history and I don't think you're going to narrow down a date much. I can help with a little more info on Besson - on my Facebook there are some photos of New Langwill index entries for the firm. Well, if you can make it to Selattyn sometime soon, let me know and I'll go along. How's that for a claim to fame? I'd love to get to the Dolgellau session again sometime - it's been too long - but, unfortunately, Wednesday evenings are usually taken up. I can go one better than that - I am Cornelius from Llanidloes. The rod mounted keys on the foot joint use a different spring system - simple straight wire springs, wrapped around the mounting pins at one end and passing through an eyed pin on the rotating tube at the other. Besson and co serial numbers free#The free ends of the springs do indeed ride on metal inserts. On the 3 short keys on the mid-joint, the attachment points are hidden by the corks, so I can't be sure they each have a little dark dot above the attachment point, which suggests they might be riveted. The two long keys (F-natural and high C-natural? I'm new to keyed flutes) have the springs screwed on. The head joint crown looks very much like bakelite (although I would have to cut a piece off it to be 100% certain) There is, as you point out, no reinforcing ring on the upper mid-joint tenon, but there is one inside the corresponding socket of the tuning barrel. -You're right about the reinforcing ring on the lower mid-joint tenon there is no metal reinforcing in the socket.This is great, Bob - just the kind of reply I wanted. ^ Brass Bulletin -2002 'À l'instar des cornets de Courtois (modèles 'Koenig', 'Arban', 'Levy' et autres) qui sont abondamment copiés dès le milieu du XIXe siècle, la plupart des facteurs de cornets s'inspireront des modèles 'Desideratum' et 'Concertiste' de Besson. ![]() Although the relationship of the intervalve portings to the placement of valve slides, and bell and leadpipe articulation to the valves, is geometrically identical in both the Desideratum and the Concertiste. the Desideratum was their second most expensive. ![]() Thompson, François Tonneau Perspectives in Ethology: Evolution, Culture, and Behavior 2000 - 'Whereas the Concertiste was Besson's most expensive model, at least from the 1890s to the advent of World War I.
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