Age of Boosey & Co. Class "A" Euphonium. Hi there, I've just bought an old Boosey

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1. Guest3115
   

   Boosey
   (London 1851-1930)
   The Boosey family had emigrated to England from France in the first half of the fifteenth century. The firm was originally started in 1792 by Thomas Boosey, [Sr.] (Newsome 1998, 95). He began by selling imported scientific and educational books, and soon thereafter, music books and scores. The business was so lucrative that Thomas, Jr.(b c1795) became manager of the music and bookseller portion of the business in 1816 (Mathez 1994, 81). From 1816 to 1854, the company was known as Thos. Boosey & Co.. During this time, in1851, the firm began to manufacture instruments. For ten years, beginning in 1854, the company was known as Boosey & Sons and for the rest of the nineteenth century, the company was known as Boosey & Co.. In 1868, Boosey bought DISTIN & Co. and hired David James Blaikley (b London 13 July 1846; d London 29 Dec 1936) as manager. On 14 November 1878, Blaikley patented a "compensating" valve system (GB #4618), while still working for Boosey. Blaikley was a great innovator, patenting many manufacturing improvements over the years. In 1884, he patented the "water-escape" system for brass instruments (GB #4542), a trombone tuning slide in 1891 (GB #9989), a double horn with compensating valves in 1912 (GB #28599), and a brass valve in 1922 (Waterhouse 1993, 34). Blaikley worked for Boosey until 1930, when the firm merged with Hawkes to form Boosey & Hawkes. William A. Pond of New York was a distributor of Boosey instruments in the late nineteenth century (Hazen and Hazen 1987, 130).
   In 1879, Thomas’ son, John (b c1832; d 1893) became owner of the firm and in the same year added reed instruments to their line of instruments, with the famous Eugène Albert advising the firm in c1880. In 1893, John was replaced by Arthur Boosey (d 1919), and a year later the firm had employed 100 workers. In the late nineteenth century, the firm published popular music such as the ballad, concentrating it efforts later on educational music (D. J. Blaikley, "Boosey & Hawkes," in The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments). In 1913 the plant burned, but was quickly rebuilt and enlarged. In 1919, the company was owned by Leslie Boosey, and in 1930, it merged with HAWKES to form Boosey & Hawkes.
   Among the exhibitions attended by the company was the London exhibitions of 1862 and 1885 (Waterhouse 1993, 40).
   References for the above include The New Langwill Index (Waterhouse 1993), <>(Mathez 1994), Brass Roots (Newsome 1998), The Music Men (Hazen and Hazen 1987), and D. J. Blaikley, "Boosey & Hawkes," in The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. Other references are listed throughout the entry.
   Company markings on brass instruments include: (Waterhouse 1993, 40)
               BOOSEY & CO.
                   MAKERS
                   LONDON
   Company markings on cornets include:
               BOOSEY & CO. (Myers and Parks 1994, 27)
                   CLASS A
   [trumpet and banner trademark]
               LIGHT VALVE
               BOOSEY & CO.
                   MAKERS
           295 REGENT STREET
                   LONDON
   
   
   Serial numbers:
   (Myers and Parks 1994, 39, et al.)
   18333 c1875
   39238 c1890
   (Allied n.d., 228 unles Myers and Parks)
   39632 1891
   40049 1891 (23 July) (Myers and Parks 2000, 45)
   41506 1892
   43393 1893
   45080 1894
   46572 1895
   47880 1896
   48334 1896 (8 May) (Myers and Parks 2000, 57)
   49539 1897
   51590 1898
   52880 1898 (22 Aug) (Myers and Parks 2000, 46)
   53692 1899 (12 Feb) (Myers and Parks 2000, 38)
   53895 1899
   56375 1900
   59198 1901
   61677 1902
   64179 1903
   66495 1904
   67544 1905 (Myers and Parks 1998, 58)
   71718 1906
   73814 1907
   75600 1908
   77423 1909
   79257 1910
   82500 1911 (Myers and Parks 1998, 33)
   83688 1912
   85996 1913
   88523 1914
   93415 1915
   98316 1916
   100679 1917
   103019 1918 (9 Mar) (Myers and Parks 2000, 49)
   104183 1919
   107383 1920 (20 Apr) (Myers and Parks 2000, 39)

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