Under the personaldirection of Amedee Couesnon for 48 years, the company won manymedals and awards for quality production and technical innovation. Theproduction included percussion, woodwinds (including double reeds),small and large brasses, and military bugles.

Thecompany was purchased by the Couesnon family in 1883 and already hadan outstanding reputation as a maker of fine instruments. The Couesnon company was started in 1827, in ChâteauThierry, a small city on the Marne River, 50 miles east of Paris, anarea traditionally associated with the making of brass instruments,according to Richard Dundas, in his book, Twentieth Century BrassMusical Instruments in the Twentieth Century (third edition). Why is it, then, that one can no longer buy such a popularinstrument? Itsdesign is copied by the overwhelming majority of instrument makerswho now make and market flugelhorns. Their flugelhorn sounded great,was readily available, and was cheap. In the USA in the1950s, the Couesnon flugelhorn became very popular as a doublinginstrument for jazz trumpet artists. It grew to include eight factoriesemploying, at one time, over 1800 people in France. The cap used is not an original Couesnon but functions as it should and does not affect the play of the instrument.Ĭouesnon is one of the great names in brass instruments, inbusiness over 170 years. This particular horn was professionally repaired with a couple of dents repaired and the #2 valve cap replaced.

Here is a vintage Couesnon flugelhorn.

For a while one major retailer of used instruments used to attach dates of manufacture on the Couesnons they.

And worse yet, so very few Couesnon instruments are in the hands of the original owners that attempting to establish a data base of serial numbers and date of manufacture (as has been successfully done with Benge trumpets) is impossible.

Made in France in the early 1960s (likely 1961), this is a glorious example of professional-quality vintage tenor saxophone made by an underappreciated boutique French saxophone maker - Couesnon.Couesnon saxophones, despite t. For sale is this gorgeous vintage Couesnon Monopole II tenor saxophone. In 1896 it reported a workforce of 200 at the Chateau-Thierry factory.

In 1890 it humbly advertised as manufacture d insts. And from 1888 onwards as Couesnon et Cie. By 1883 the business was styled Couesnon, Gautrot, et Ci Cie. Note that the serial numbers of the instruments which eventually incorporated the valves clusters are given in the second column. Fig.4 - Distin and Company Workshop order book for 1873 showing valve serial numbers being allocated in chronological order by date of order from April 4 to April 17. Couesnon Lafayette Trumpet Serial Numbers.

Courtois flugelhorn serial numbers