As an accomplished player, he believed heavily in the scientific principles of manufacturing and brought a high level of consistency and playability to their hand-made instruments. The Bliss clarinets offered unique features and playability not typically found in affordable student instruments. Noblet was established in France making instruments for the court of Louis XV. Even more important, no other manufacturer can offer as wide a selection of brass and woodwind instruments crafted with the same integrity and dedication to excellence as does Leblanc. In 1950, Vito hired his first educator to help develop a focus on programs and materials specific to the area of music education. Blow that Trumpet To make sound on the trumpet put your lips together and blow on the mouth piece until you produce a tone. The Martin Band Instrument Company was a musical instrument manufacturer in Elkhart, Indiana.The firm produced band instruments, including trumpets, cornets, fluegelhorns, trombones, and saxophones from 1908 through the 1960s. If you ask them, EXCESSIVELY NICELY, about a serial number off a horn you own, they might tell you when it was made. The workshop at the Leblanc headquarters in Paris became a meeting place of the great woodwind artists of the era. The model '707 Sonic' can be found on the lead pipe. Leblanc never published their serial number list so it is hard to give it an exact date. I have a Selmer Flute and would like to know when it was made. No Leblanc models were found in the database. In 1961, the Positive Radial Alignment Guide (P.R.A.G.) In 1964, Leblanc acquired the Frank Holton Company, located in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, one of America's most prestigious brass-instrument manufacturers. The instruments serial number is 12032 marking it one of the early French vintage horns. From the beginning, the Leblancs were constantly guided by scientific principles and inspired by their inborn musical genius. I haven't found any reference tables for Vitos out there, so I started this one for myself and decided to share it.

Antoine Courtois Trumpet Serial Numbers