Help With Antique Horn

ttf_anonymous · Post by **ttf_anonymous** » Mon Dec 04, 2017 8:58 am

My in-laws have a family heirloom but I'm having trouble finding any information about it online. It's just the bell of a trombone that has this engraved on it:

MANFD.
BY
E.O.HENTSCHEL
CHICAGO
1455

It's smaller than a typical tenor bell and it doesn't have any mechanism to lock the bell into the slide. This makes me think of a sackbut but it has a tuning slide and a flared bell. All I actually know about it is that my mother-in-law's uncle supposedly marched with it in the FSU Marching Chiefs, so sometime between 1947 and 1960 (he died in the 60's).
If anyone knows anything about the manufacturer or the horn let me know!

ttf_Doug Elliott · Post by **ttf_Doug Elliott** » Mon Dec 04, 2017 9:36 am

So far this is all I can find:

http://www.horn-u-copia.net/Reference/display.php?thisrec=319

"Emil Hentschel was born in Chicago in 1887. He repaired musical instruments in Chicago for a living..."

There is no listing under that name in the Langwill Index. My guess is it's the only one he made; he wasn't known as a manufacturer.

ttf_Le.Tromboniste · Post by **ttf_Le.Tromboniste** » Mon Dec 04, 2017 11:58 am

There is another one listed on Horn-u-copia, serial number 1523.

ttf_Doug Elliott · Post by **ttf_Doug Elliott** » Mon Dec 04, 2017 12:04 pm

Cool. I missed that. Here it is, with pictures even:
http://www.horn-u-copia.net/show.php?selby=+where+instrument%3D%22Trombone%22+and+maker%3D%22Hentschel+%22

ttf_Doug Elliott · Post by **ttf_Doug Elliott** » Mon Dec 04, 2017 12:04 pm

Cool. I missed that. Here it is, with pictures even:
http://www.horn-u-copia.net/show.php?selby=+where+instrument%3D%22Trombone%22+and+maker%3D%22Hentschel+%22