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    • barliman2001
      barliman2001 Global Moderator last edited by

      Many, many years ago (must have been around 1995), the late Hermann Ganter of Munich made me a cornet and gve it to me, suitably engraved, as a birthday present.
      Some years later, I was in financial straits and sold that cornet on to a fellow cornet player, an English (?) lady called Alison Something then playing in the Munich brass band.
      Shortly afterwards, I had to relocate and lost all contact to the band, the lady and the cornet.
      Now, I would dearly love to get that cornet back somehow, but the band disbanded and reformed and there are no records of contact details of the players...
      Yellow brass lacquered shepherd's crook cornet, engraved with HERMANN GANTER and a German language birthday message mentioning my name. No serial number.
      If you know anything about the whereabouts of that cornet, please contact me!

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      Buescher Aristocrat
      Gaudet C
      Selmer G
      Courtois 154 Flugelhorn
      Besson International Bb cornet
      Courtois Bb cornet
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        cuivree last edited by

        If the English lady was Alison Balsom, you shouldn't have much trouble locating her.

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        • Kehaulani 0
          Kehaulani 0 last edited by Kehaulani 0

          Barliman, you don't know who Alison Balsom is?
          https://www.alisonbalsom.com/

          BTW, she did play in a Munich brass band.

          I'm sure she might help if she can, but I would be patient. With her recording and touring schedule, I would think an inquiry might take some time to get an answer. Good luck.

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          • barliman2001
            barliman2001 Global Moderator last edited by

            I know exactly who Alison Balsom is... but the lady in question was in her fifties when she bought the cornet off me (around 1993), and dark and short-haired... if she is still alive, she must be in her late seventies or eighties by now. And the Munich brass band Alison Balsom played in was a very different entity from the band I joined on flugelhorn in 1992... in my time, it was more or less a scratch band put together from odds and ends of failed oompah bands, with an averge age of between 60 and 90, and fell apart around the 2000 mark more or less from old age of many players... the current Munich Brass Band is an excellent band mostly made up of younger, aspiring players with an entirely new organisational corset and the like.

            Courtois Balanced
            Courtois D
            Olds Recording
            Buescher Aristocrat
            Gaudet C
            Selmer G
            Courtois 154 Flugelhorn
            Besson International Bb cornet
            Courtois Bb cornet
            B&H Sovereign Soprano Cornet
            B&H Sovereign trombone
            Willy Garreis trombone
            Weltklang Euph

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            • Kehaulani 0
              Kehaulani 0 last edited by Kehaulani 0

              ". . . put together from odds and ends of failed oompah bands, with an average age of between 60 and 90, and fell apart . . . ".
              Funny. I think I know that band.

              Yamaha Bobby Shew Trumpet
              Benge Cornet
              Akai EWI 5000 Pro

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              • barliman2001
                barliman2001 Global Moderator @Kehaulani 0 last edited by

                @Kehaulani-0 "It's not Unusual..."

                Courtois Balanced
                Courtois D
                Olds Recording
                Buescher Aristocrat
                Gaudet C
                Selmer G
                Courtois 154 Flugelhorn
                Besson International Bb cornet
                Courtois Bb cornet
                B&H Sovereign Soprano Cornet
                B&H Sovereign trombone
                Willy Garreis trombone
                Weltklang Euph

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                  flugler last edited by

                  Any interest in a Bach Strad shepherd's crook cornet in outstanding condition? Beautiful instrument, but i don't have need of a cornet anymore. I played in a Dixieland band that went out of business during Covid.

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                  • barliman2001
                    barliman2001 Global Moderator @flugler last edited by

                    @flugler Nice offer; but I want that special cornet and none else...

                    Courtois Balanced
                    Courtois D
                    Olds Recording
                    Buescher Aristocrat
                    Gaudet C
                    Selmer G
                    Courtois 154 Flugelhorn
                    Besson International Bb cornet
                    Courtois Bb cornet
                    B&H Sovereign Soprano Cornet
                    B&H Sovereign trombone
                    Willy Garreis trombone
                    Weltklang Euph

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