The thing we love about these is that they are VERY free blowing and responsive, and actually possess a lot of roundness and width to. These 609's basically kick any asian model's (of similar pricerange) butt. Nice to know there's still an American company making GOOD brass instruments. Personally, I think he found it at a garage sale/estate sale and was just feeding me a bunch of BS about playing it professionally. This is a USA-made Besson 609, manufactured by Kanstul.
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I can't imagine any professional allowing his working horn to get into this kind of disgusting condition. The funny thing is, I purchased this horn off of Craigslist from an retired guy who claims to have played this instrument professionally for 30 years. It's not even seated properly, as the cap is about 1 thread higher. I did manage to remove valves 2, 3 and 4, the corrosion on valve #2 worries me.I can't get the cap off of the first valve to remove it. There's a mouthpiece adapter frozen in the receiver, the valve caps and bottoms are frozen and about half the tuning slides are stuck as well. The buildup of gunk in the lead pipe is horrific. I gave it a warm bath last night and let it soak appears to not have been cleaned for at least 30 years. I was hoping to replace my old baritone with this. Please check out the other horns listed from my collection by clicking on Gabriel's Trumpets in blue above. It came with three interchangeable leadpipes (68, 75 and 76). These profesional trumpet players chose to play Besson horns: Louis Armstrong, Chet Baker, Miles Davis, Marvin Stamm and Rafael Mendez. Q: I just acquired a used French Besson C trumpet made by Kanstul. I just picked up a used Besson euphonium and was hoping there's someone on this forum knowledgeable in this area who can tell me what I have and if it's worth getting fixed up/restored. Additional information about Besson instruments, including model numbers and descriptions, can be found at The Besson Loyalist.