Fortunately it is very well preserved and not suffered misguided modifications as so many other old Bach trumpets have. In the years that I have owned this trumpet many excellent players have wanted to try it out and none, so far, have told me that it is less than an excellent instrument. Judging by examples of early Bach trumpets that have gone through my shop, they were superior in playing characteristics from the very start. His trumpets were expensive but he had gained an excellent reputation in earlier years as a cornet and trumpet soloist and then making mouthpieces. This seems too large a production for such a young company, but some parts were most likely being made by a larger maker, possibly the valve sections. When this trumpet was completed on February 2, 1928, Vincent Bach had been making trumpets for just over 3 years, but assuming that he was using all the serial numbers in sequence, had increased production to over 300 a year.
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