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The Burbank Trumpet by Kanstul
Had to drive out to Highland which is at the base of the San Gabriel's. This came from a musician that played for the Buddy Guy Band. ...
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1963 Conn 10M Tenor Amazing Shape
Had to drive to Reseda for this one but it was well worth the trip. This looks like it was bought, played for a little bit and put away in a nice climate controlled closet.. All the nickel plating cleaned up beautifully and it has monstrous bass and tone.
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1929 Conn 514-N Double Walled Metal Clarinet with microtuner barrel
This is in very good shape. Love the old reed with the lipstick on it.
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1926 Selmer Paris Modele 22 Alto Saxophone in Silver Plate
Just in and in amazing shape just needs cleaned up. It came with the original case. I am looking forward to playing this one.
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1954 F. E. Olds - Special - Los Angeles Trumpet
I picked this up in Long Beach. It was kind of a mess. It had a lot of red surface rust where it had lost the lacquer. I am still...
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Renee Dumont - Alto Saxophone - West Germany - Keilwerth copy.
This thing is built sold and has rolled tone holes and a very cool neck screw feature. Has that great big german tone.. These had really...
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1904 Lyon and Healy Cornet - Own Build - With Provenance
This is what I love about Brass Rescue. This coronet still has the Ralph Waldo Emerson High School, Gary Indiana, band music holder with...
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1972 Buffet Super Dynaction Tenor - The Third One
Just arrived.. It needs a few adjustments and pads. I am a huge fan of these tenors
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1860s SARV, Side Action Rotary Valve, Trumpet by Rampone Milano Italy
The valves were stuck but after a few hours working on them they move perfectly. This has an incredible tone and is easy to play up and...
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1929 Selmer Alto - Large Bore in Silver Plate
This is in an amazing example of one of these. It still needs to be cleaned up but it plays the vintage Selmer sound perfectly.
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It must be the weather.. Another week of ultra rare finds. A Holton Don Ellis Quartertone 4 valve trumpet
Last week it was the Grafton acrylic saxophone. Today I bought this from a guy in Fullerton who actually delivered it to me at my bank...
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A Whole lot of Brass - Vintage Cornets
Over the holidays was able to go through some of the horns that I have not had a chance to get to and instead of selling separately...
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1950s Grafton White Plastic Acrylic, Alto Saxophone
These are extremely rare and were made famous by Charlie Parker and Ornette Coleman. I found this in Anaheim and it is in great shape...
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Klingson - Hamerschmidt - German Tenor Saxophone
This just came in and has some very unique features.
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Holton - Maynard Ferguson - Firebird -Trumpet\Slide trombone
It doesn't get much rarer or valuable than this when it comes to fairly modern brass instruments. This is in immaculate shape.
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1940 Conn 80A Cornet with Opera Glass tuning slide
This is in decent shape after I spent several rounds of stripping old lacquer off of it. The Conn lacquer they used is a bear to get off.
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1948 Buffet SA 18 20 Alto Saxophone
Bought this with the intent of re-homing to someone and after playing it for a couple of hours I found the right person, myself. ...
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1905 Buescher Shepherds Crook Cornet
Very early production cornet with some unique qualities. Has the original case and accessories. This should clean up nicely.
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An Ivory Tipped Flageolet
This was part of a large lot of woodwinds. Some background on what this is.. http://flageolets.com/
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Boosey & Hawkes Alto Horn
This thing is a blast to play and love the tone. Came with a Bach Mt Vernon 3 mouthpiece.
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1926 Buescher True Tone Alto Saxophone
This has new snap in pads, cork n felt. Very nice example of a classic sax in amazing shape.
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Couesnon Monopole II Trumpet? stenciled Silvertone
Sears Roebuck sold musical instruments manufactured by a variety of both US and European companies. This looks to be a Monopole model...
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1974 Buffet Super Dynaction Tenor Saxophone
I have been waiting all week for this French made saxophone to arrive. These don't become available that often and when they do they are...
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Tubaphone a version of a metallaphone. Essentially a Wind Chime you can play
It has amazing tone and is fun to get lost in making it sing.
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