That implies that they already had a business relationship that ended up in an acquisition. Instruments from various leading manufacturers of the period were sold under the Carl Fischer house brand. acquired the musical instrument department of the company from his son Walter, maintaining the Carl Fischer retail operations as a consortium between Conn and the music publisher under the Carl Fischer name. In 1929, six years after Carl passed away, C.G. Charles Conn started making his rubber covered mouthpieces in 1873. I do know that Carl Fischer was a contemporary of Conn who opened a musical instrument repair shop in 1872 in New York's East Village. I have a picture of the trombone player with the band from an old sheet music for a song they played, but I would love to have a name if anyone knows where to find it.Ĭould be, I am not a recognized expert on these instruments. I thought the instrument was contemporary to the date the ship made its first voyage after being refurbished into a troop carrier, but that serial number puts it around 1893 (!!). This instrument has a serial number, 27197, just below the engraved model info, where the bell joins the pipe. Later on United States Lines bought it and turned it back into a luxurious transatlantic ship. It had a band that was pretty good and recorded music for Victor Records, mostly fox trot tunes. The vessel then became the USS Leviathan troop carrier and ferried some 100k doughboys to and from Europe. This is the Hoboken company owned by Andrew Fletcher that worked on the huge vessel's boilers after it was confiscated from the Germans in 1917 (they called it the SS Vaterland) by the US government when war was declared at the beginning of WW1. on the bell it says that it was given to the USS Leviathan's Engineering Department by the Consolidated Iron Works. It says it is a Carl Fischer's American Model, New York, has a serial number under the model info. I recently picked up a Conn trombone at a flea market in restorable condition with a very interesting background. I currently have a 1962 EK Blessing trumpet, and a rare German Einheits bandoneon with three sets of reeds instead of two. I am a rank amateur when it comes to brass, but I like to restore vintage instruments with a history.
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