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3 unusual facts about Vincent Bach Corporation


John Rommel

He was a clinician for the Vincent Bach Corporation, a division of the Selmer Company, and has studied with former IU trumpet professors William Adam and Louis Davidson, former Louisville Orchestra principal Leon Rapier, and former Chicago Symphony trumpeters Vincent Cichowicz and William Scarlett.

Vincent Bach Corporation

While Bach was on tour in Pittsburgh in 1918, a repairman destroyed his mouthpiece, and Bach began experimenting with mouthpiece repair and fabrication.

In October 1928 the company opened a factory in The Bronx to produce cornets, trumpets and trombones (both tenor and bass).



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