| I wonder also if the valve guides are.....plastic looking material or metal?
Does the 1st and 3rd valve and lead-pipe have nickle trim and what mouthpiece was included with that cornet?
Many of the later model Student Bessons that displayed a tooled musical note, with the Stratford logo that illustrated the Besson signature across that note (at a 45 degree angle) These student model horns, many came included a #5 "Star" mouthpiece. (Nice fat rim, fairly deep but narrow cup.
A fellow church choir member let me borrow this little student model cornet for a while...after my old "road-rage" Besson Sov' cornet was "borrowed forever" out of my old Z car.
this little #5 mp. was an easy blow, felt reeeally comfortable...gave me a nice range...BUT SOUNDED FLUFFY N' STUFFY, compared to my beloved old deep V mouthpiece that disappeared with my old Commuter Besson Sov.
Bottom line: That Besson Cornet sounds more like one of these little Student models, and the price is truly not worth selling and perhaps should be kept as a family reminder, or passed down to a family member to learn the life long fun of playing a musicial instrument. Then one can move up to a beautiful new shiney Gezten Cornet....that will let the music spirits soar...n' allthatjazz.
Absence make the heart grow fonder? |