![]() Buescher adapted its sound concept to the bigger, bolder sounds favored by dance orchestras and jazz musicians, modifying its Aristocrat model and releasing the 400 'Top Hat & Cane' model in 1940. Buescher stayed true to Adolphe Sax's concept for saxophone sound into the early 1930s, gaining the favor of classical saxophonist Sigurd Rascher and those influenced by him. During the 1920s Buescher also made small numbers of tipped-bell soprano, straight alto, and straight tenor saxophones. Buescher saxophones became distinctive with snap-in pads, patented by Buescher in 1921, and screw-in gold-plated Norton springs, introduced in late 1931. Though Buescher manufactured many kinds of brass instruments, the company was known primarily for its saxophones which competed successfully with instruments made by Conn and Martin. True Tone became the trademark name for band instruments made by the Buescher Manufacturing Company. ![]() In March 1901 he patented a cornet unusual in that the valves were of unequal lengths. In 1894 his company began production of saxophones, becoming Conn's main competitor over the following two decades. Collins, a clothing merchant, and Harry L. Main Street, which made band instruments and other metal products, in partnership with John L. In the fall of 1893 he opened the Buescher Manufacturing Company at 1119 N. In 1890, while still employed with Conn, he began producing band emblems at home and was setting up his own shop. ![]() Lefebre in 1888 he produced Conn's first saxophone prototype. After being shown an Adolph Sax model saxophone in possession of E.A. Conn's fledgling band instrument factory. He accompanied his family to Goshen, Indiana and then to Elkhart in 1875. ![]() The company was founded by Ferdinand August 'Gus' Buescher (born Elk Township, Noble County, Ohio 26 April 1861 died Elkhart, Indiana 29 November 1937). ![]()
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