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The3rdbill
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 Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2017 7:46 am Post subject: This Old Biddy |
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Pretty sure this is an old Ditson Victory, but I'm not 100% certain. Can anyone give me any feedback on it?
http://app.5miles.us/mi2zm5p
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derby_mute
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| Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2017 12:07 pm Post subject: |
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If you look at the Ditson Victory cornets on the website horn-u-copia.net you'll see they all have Ditson engraved on the bell. The fact that yours doesn't is clue it wasn't made by Ditson.
It looks to me to be a stencil horn (one made by a manufacturer then stamped with a retailer's name, or other name). Likely it is from the late 1930s or 1940s. It looks to me to be possibly made in Europe, maybe Czechoslovakia or Germany.
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Bflatman
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| Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2017 3:06 am Post subject: |
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Ditson seem to have been a music shop selling music and then some instruments made by others.
Almost all the Ditson badged instruments were made in Czechoslovakia some were made in Austria a few in Germany. One was badged as USA made but that may also have been a stencil.
This does not suggest low quality however, Selmer London also sold european instruments stencilled and engraved Selmer although Selmer also manufactured instruments, it was a common practice and remains a common practice today. |
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