oldlou

As a former employee of York Band Instrument Co. and then an employee of A.J.'Bill' Johnson who ran and owned York for most of his long life, before selling out to Carl Fischer, I am enthused about the history and excellence of the vintage York brass instruments. Because of the current overwhelming popularity of trumpets over cornets, the majority of Yorks high brass production has been to a great deal forgotten or ignored. In the history of York there have been many ultra fine cornets and trumpets with the cornets being in the greater number, but, some of the line, both short and long were among the finest ever made. I hope to hear from others on this forum who agree with my assessment.


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Couturier trumpet
York Master Model trumpet
York Elite trumpet
York Airflow cornet
King super 20 Master Model cornet
King Liberty trumpet
Reynolds Professional cornet
Bohm & Meinl professional trumpet
Besson 10-10 trumpet with Holton M.F. bell
Olds Special cornet Los Angeles
B&H Sovereign cornet
G.R.Band Instr. cornet
Getzen Super Deluxe trumpet and cornet
Getzen Deluxe trumpet and cornet
Many others no room to list

MFfan

Hi Lou, I am not qualified to judge, other than by your undeniable expertise Not having one yet, anyway. I notice two York trumpets on ebay by seller timbrown527, one called a "Brilliant" and the other looking similar. Both have buy it now prices and fairly good commentary. Maybe you could look and advise if you are familiar with these an pm me if you think either is a good buy, etc. See you Thurs. Thanks!

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Dave Rafferty
07 Barrington Trumpet, 1972 Reynolds Medalist
55 Besson 8-10 trumpet
55 Roth by Reynolds Cornet
73 Olds Ambassador Cornet
30's Czech small bore Trumpet
Getzen 80 cornet, 33 American Standard cornet
66 Olds Ambassador Trumpet
www.kalamazooconcertband.org

A.N.A. Mendez

The "Master" model cornets are AMAZING Players!

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(Above) Alexanders ragtime band-circa 1960

"Baby, I'm already the coolest, and the hippist, now you want me to be on time too?" Buddy Love

"We appointed all our worst generals to command our armies, and our best generals to edit our newspapers." Robert E. Lee

oldlou

This is very true, but, they, like their trumpet brothers are quite rare. There were few of them made and those that are still in existance are well loved and don't show up on the market very often. As can be seen in my signature I own a Master Model trumpet, which is the only example that I have seen in the last ten years. It is my prime trumpet out of many fine instruments in my 'accumilation'.


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Couturier trumpet
York Master Model trumpet
York Elite trumpet
York Airflow cornet
King super 20 Master Model cornet
King Liberty trumpet
Reynolds Professional cornet
Bohm & Meinl professional trumpet
Besson 10-10 trumpet with Holton M.F. bell
Olds Special cornet Los Angeles
B&H Sovereign cornet
G.R.Band Instr. cornet
Getzen Super Deluxe trumpet and cornet
Getzen Deluxe trumpet and cornet
Many others no room to list

A.N.A. Mendez

This looked to be a bargain, tune slides do get frozen but I think this one could have been worth a go?
ebay # 200212869415

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(Above) Alexanders ragtime band-circa 1960

"Baby, I'm already the coolest, and the hippist, now you want me to be on time too?" Buddy Love

"We appointed all our worst generals to command our armies, and our best generals to edit our newspapers." Robert E. Lee

MFfan

The King Master cornet depicted surely was worth the $42.66 even though they called it a "trumpet", although too bad it wasn't taken care of with the consideration it deserved.

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Dave Rafferty
07 Barrington Trumpet, 1972 Reynolds Medalist
55 Besson 8-10 trumpet
55 Roth by Reynolds Cornet
73 Olds Ambassador Cornet
30's Czech small bore Trumpet
Getzen 80 cornet, 33 American Standard cornet
66 Olds Ambassador Trumpet
www.kalamazooconcertband.org