Posted by Klaus on November 22, 2002 at 23:14:52:
Thumbnail of Pease Music House, Utica, NY, small bore sousaphone:
http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/yorkmasterpublicphotosvii/vwp?.dir=/Small+sousaphones&.src=gr&.dnm=Pease+Music+House+sousaphone.jpg
Thumbnails of two different Barcone baby sousaphones:
http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/yorkmasterpublicphotosvii/lst?.dir=/Small+sousaphones/Two+different+Barcone+baby+BBb+sousas
Folder wit thumbnails of Russian instruments:
http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/yorkmasterpublicphotosviii/lst?.dir=/Russian+brasses
More instruments with be added to this folder, when I find them. For now there are 2 cornets and a trumpet showing less than standard airpaths for rotary instruments.
Thumbnails of Russian bassoons made in France:
http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/yorkmasterpublicphotosvi/lst?.dir=/Russian+bassoons+from+France
We often have students asking for help, when they have been assigned for an essay or a paper touching the topics of our instruments. As a former teacher I know teachers as well as students, so made one of my more light-hearted postings now to be found at:
http://www.chisham.com/tips/bbs/jan2002/messages/80533.html
The next three ones might have been announced once before, but I like them for their display of the social function of band music in Germany and France:
Thumbnail of a Bavarian band from around 1911:
http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/yorkmasterpublicphotosv/vwp?.dir=/&.src=gr&.dnm=Bavarian+band+1911.jpg
Thumbnail of a Bavarian street concert from pre-WWI:
http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/yorkmasterpublicphotosv/vwp?.dir=/&.dnm=Bavarian+street+concert+preWWI.jpg
Thumbnail of Adolphe Sax’s inventions as used in a 19th century French band:
http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/yorkmasterpublicphotosiii/vwp?.dir=/&.dnm=19th+century+French+band.jpg
An older representative of the Glassl tuba makers:
Thumbnail(-s) of a Josef Glassl pre-1919 F tuba:
http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/yorkmasterpublicphotosvi/vwp?.dir=/&.dnm=F+tuba+Josef+Glassl+pre-1919.jpg&.src=gr&.view=t&.hires=t
This one is always good:
Thumbnail of an old man playing guitar and “pedal”-tuba simultaneously:
http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/yorkmasterpublicphotosvi/vwp?.dir=/&.dnm=Guitar+and+%27pedal%27-tuba.jpg
Sorry if a few of the given links have been presented before.
Sadly the structure of Yahoo groups does not let thumbnail links go to a sign up page, if you are not member of one of these open, free, and non-posting groups presenting .jpeg's and .pdf's of older illustrations, catalogues, and more concerning brass instruments. With a strong emphasise on low brasses.
You can see on the links which of the following groups they belong to. Then you can sign up through these direct links to the groups:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/YorkMasterPublicPhotosIII/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/YorkMasterPublicPhotosIV/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/YorkMasterPublicPhotosV/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/YorkMasterPublicPhotosVI/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/YorkMasterPublicPhotosVII/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/YorkMasterPublicPhotosVIII/
The newest index in Word format with hyperlinks can be found at the link given below.
If some of you have interesting pictures, I will be happy to upload them. I do not want to mimic (or to steal pics from) sites like the ones of Rick Denney and others. They are perfect in their own right.
What I want, is to collect pictures illustrating and documenting brass history, instruments and bands alike. Especially those, that can be hard to find on well known websites.
As a sample: I am very interested in anything about the man and the make Vincent Bach. But that company has a brilliant site including the texts of VB. I can add nothing.
But companies like Conn, Besson/B&H, and B&S do not document their more recent history too well on their sites. Miraphone has a good website, but without the comparative tables of their old catalogue. That is where the YorkMasterPublicPhotos groups apparently have a function.
Klaus