Vincent Bach Corporation

The Vincent Bach Corporation was an American manufacturer of brass instruments and accessories, here especially of mouthpieces. This was after multiple acquisitions out today's brand Vincent Bach, which is in the possession of the group Conn - Selmer, Inc.. Conn - Selmer Vincent Bach uses the mark for the sales of a full range of all popular brass instruments. Advancements original Bach Conn - Selmer structures sells under the premium brand Bach Stradivarius.

The Founder

Vincent shot Bach ( born March 24, 1890 in Baden bei Wien, † January 8, 1976 in New York) first learned the violin, but later switched to the trumpet. Although successful, he graduated from the Vienna School of Mechanical Engineering, he decided on a career as a musician under the stage name of Vincent Bach. At the beginning of the First World War, he emigrated to the USA, where he first got a job with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and later as principal trumpet with the Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera in New York after initial difficulties.

1918 Bach began in a back room of the New York music shop Selmer with the production of mouthpieces for trumpets and cornets, first as single pieces and small series. Later he made mouthpieces with industrial precision in series and systematically explored relationships between the structural design of mouthpieces on the speech, the intonation, the sound and general game behavior. He also developed a system to their marking, which other manufacturers are based in part until today.

The history of the Vincent Bach Corporation

Starting In 1924, Bach trumpets forth, from 1928 also trumpets. Over time, the production has been extended to each of several series of trumpets, cornets, horns and trombones wing. Depending on the grade wore the different series, the brand name Apollo, Minerva, Mercury, Mercedes and Stradivarius.

In 1953, Bach decided to move production from the cramped premises in the Bronx in the peaceful town of Mount Vernon, New York.

1961 his company sold the venerable Vincent Bach final of the Selmer Company, which initially had the full range produce further change. 1965 Selmer moved the production from New York to Elkhart, Indiana, USA.

Although Bach can not be called directly as the inventor of the modern trumpet American design with three Périnet valves, he has no doubt contributed greatly to the perfection of this instrument. In particular instruments from the time in New York and Mount Vernon are sought and considered partly as collectibles.

In contrast, represent some trumpeter of the opinion that after this time produced under the auspices Selmer in Elkhart and elsewhere instruments whose quality did not reach first for a long time.

Selmer went in 2002 to the group Conn - Selmer, Inc., which in turn is a subsidiary of Steinway Musical Instruments, Inc..

Among the researchers and journalists, which dealt with the history of the company Vincent Bach include Roy Hempley, Doug teacher, Gary Gardner Fladmoe and Andre Smith.