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Here is an ad showing Bob Alexy playing this trumpet with the bottom third slide ring. The third photo is a 1920s French Besson which is what everyone seemed to try and copy. The other changes are moving the slide brace forward, no lock nut on the main slide, different slide knobs, and different valve caps and buttons. Some parts will interchange yet the Muck adds a dual-bore design with the bore expanding through the tuning slide. Here is a comparison photo with the Muck on top and Blessing below.
BESSON SERIAL NUMBERS TRUMPEY SERIAL NUMBER
#30004 - if this is a Blessing serial number then it dates to c.1937
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#157 this one lacks the stop rod on top of the third slide and the owner says there is no evidence that it ever had one #139 this one also has a hand engraved logo yet a little better done #135 with hand engraved bell logo - the only difference is the lack of the stop rod on the third slide I had a conversation with Rudy Muck Jr in 2019 who said that Carl Blessing was a friend of the family for many years and although he could not confirm that they were the source, he thought it was certainly possible. These match ads in 19 so may be the first ones Rudy made in 1936. The Blessing Super Artist style have either 3-digit serial numbers or are in the 30000 range. Serial numbers change so much that I have arranged the trumpets by style groups regardless of the serial number. Unlike other makers, like Bach, who have a distinct style for as long as they were made, Muck horns strike me as being stencil horns from other makers or at the least being made using parts from other makers combined with his own. The origin of Rudy's trumpets has many theories and each of the many different styles found have their own variations so this presentation will try to put them all together and make some sense of it. In 1936, Rudy Muck opens a factory and showroom at #125 East 126th Street in the Bronx with the plan to build trumpets as well as his already famous mouthpieces. The 1921 to 1926 period was a partnership called Ohnhaus & Mück.Īnother J. Joseph came to New York in 1907 from Moravia and operated under J.R. It is 19 12 long (18 78 from bell rim to bell curve) without mouthpiece, the bell diameter is 4 916 and the bore measures the earliest Mück trumpet I have found is this LaSalle model that may have been made or stenciled by Rudy's father Joseph in the 1920s. The serial number indicates that this trumpet was made before 1924. We dont know how many trumpets he may have owned before making his own. There is at least one other Besson trumpet in existence that had belonged to Mr.īenge. It has a seam as seen in all original early Besson trumpets, but the same is true of Benge mouthpipes made in Chicago. The braces between the bell and mouthpipe and first slide hook are definitely Benge parts.
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I can see that some of the parts are not original, but not all are obvious. I have no way of knowing if the heavy polishing was done at the Benge shop in 1970 or previous to Mr. Most modern trumpets were originally copied from the French Besson and were manufactured from about 1885.īush This trumpet has been so heavily polished that the bell stamp needed to be engraved over to make it more legible, making it look almost as if it is a counterfeit.Ĭlose examination does show that the original stamped lettering is there. Lou Duda, the foreman of the Benge factory and outstanding trumpet craftsman, painstakingly reassembled the trumpet and presented it to Irving Bush. The instrument was disassembled in Mr Benges trumpet studio in Chicago, Illinois. Ive included a scan of Irvs story of this trumpet on his personal stationary below, but here is what it says: SeptemTo whom it may concern: The French Besson Bb trumpet, serial number 85419 is the instrument played by Elden Benge, the first trumpet with the Chicago Symphony under the direction of Frederick Stock.