Leonard: I believe it was the other way around: Sansone contracted with Alexander and Kruspe to build his design horns, which he imported into the USA. My first horn teacher, Arthur Frantz, had a really nice Sansone/Alexander Bb Single with F extension and stop valve that he used for all his studio gigs in LA. Those were the pre-Vince De Rosa days when Alfred Brain and his Bb single pretty much set the standard for studio horns.
Sansone only switched to building in the USA (I've been told) when, in the years just before and during WWII, getting horns from Germany became impossible. Most players think that the quality of Sansone horns deteriorated badly from that point. Richard in Seattle leonard brown wrote: > When we get into Bb horns the names Alex, Paxman, Schmid and many other fine > horns from Europe come up, but at one time Sansone, right here in the good > ol US, ruled the roost of Bb horns. I have seen "Sansone Model" stamped on > Alexanders and Kruspes, I think they had to pay to copy Sansone's 5-valve > design. Those are 2 I know of, were there other builders making them? Carl > Geyer is pretty well known as America's great builder/designer, but for > awhile he was on Sansone's payroll cranking out 5 valve Bb horns. Funny how > Sansone is left out of these conversations about Bb horns. > > LLBrown, Laredo > _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
