Old Musical Instruments
Buying-Selling Early Musical Instruments
William Petit wpetit@sfr.fr Tel 00 33 6 13 12 43 22
Appraisal
Saxophones Selmer
Saxophones Adolphe Sax
Flûtes
Woodwind
Brasswind
Mandolins
Strings
Violin-Viola d'Amore-Quinton
Miscellaneous
Buccin Trombone Charles Kretzschmann à Strasbourg
The buccin is a visually distinctive trombone popularized in military bands in France between 1810–1845 which subsequently faded into obscurity.
The exact date of the invention of the buccin has not been documented and apart from Berlioz’s Messe, there is little in the way of surviving music
for it.
Yet we do know that the buccin was popularized in military bands in France between 1810–1845
The visual appeal of band members in uniform playing instruments with zoomorphic heads in addition to the buccin, serpents, bass horns, bassoons and Russian bassoons—a form of upright serpent—all were made with decorative bells was indisputable and manufacturers were quick to supply more and more exotic designs.
