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A Conn 'Pan American' alto saxophone, manufactured circa 1948. This saxophone has a similar body to a Conn 6M and keywork which is reminiscent of a Conn New Wonder. The company was founded in 1917 by Carl Dimond Greenleaf, (July 27, 1876, Wauseon, Ohio - July 10, 1959, Elkhart, Indiana) who was president of C.G. Conn. Greenleaf was expanding ...
E.A. Couturier was born September 30, 1869, in Poughkeepsie, New York to a family with three other children. [1] At the age of fourteen, he began playing the cornet. [2] He entered the New England Conservatory of Music in 1885, but withdrew and took a job repairing watches in his uncle's shop. [1]
The bell of an F. E. Olds trombone, c. 1927, with the trademark "Golden Bear" and date of the 1912 patent. F. E. Olds was a manufacturer of musical instruments founded by Frank Ellsworth (F. E.) Olds in Fullerton, California, in the early 1900s. The company made brass instruments, especially trombones, cornets, and trumpets.
The cornet features in the British-style concert band, and early American concert band pieces, particularly those written or transcribed before 1960, often feature distinct, separate parts for trumpets and cornets. Cornet parts are rarely included in later American pieces, however, and they are replaced in modern American bands by the trumpet.
The original business was a used instrument shop began in 1898 by American trombone player Frank Holton in Chicago, Illinois. The firm built brass instruments for ten years in Chicago , then in Elkhorn , Wisconsin from 1918 until 2008, when production of Holton-branded instruments moved to Eastlake , Ohio. [ 1 ]
James Francis Burke (April 15, 1923 – June 26, 1981) was an American cornet soloist. He was the principal cornet soloist with the Goldman Band from 1943 to 1974. [1] He was also the principal trumpet with The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra from 1943 to 1949. [2]
Thomas P. Coates (1803 – October 11, 1895) was a 19th-century American musician who achieved initial prominence in Pennsylvania for his performances on the cornet and French horn. The director of Pomp's Cornet Band in Easton, Pennsylvania , [ 1 ] he was commissioned as the first conductor of the regimental band of the 47th Pennsylvania ...
In January 1950, Pan American Airways Corporation officially became Pan American World Airways, Inc. (The airline had begun calling itself Pan American World Airways in 1943.) [59] [60] In September 1950 Pan Am completed the $17.45 million (equivalent to $175.32 million in 2023) [15] purchase of American Overseas Airlines from American Airlines ...