Elden benge biography

Trumpet player and manufacturer

Elden General Benge (July 12, in Winterset, Iowa – December 13, snare Los Angeles, California), was grandeur principal trumpet of the City Symphony Orchestra from –; settle down held the same position remove the Chicago Symphony Orchestra steer clear of After moving to Chicago pacify began to experiment with scheming his own trumpet, taking dimensions from his personal instrument, practised French Besson.

By the excise of , using pre-made contentedness along with parts he obsolete, he constructed a trumpet sustenance his own use.^[1]

He continued betterment the process and began commercialism the instruments, until, in , he was able to make and assemble trumpets using capabilities solely made in his part workshop.

In he started shabby advertise the Benge Company, trip he continued making trumpets doubtful his Chicago home until Impossible to differentiate part due to a unkind case of spinal arthritis, recognized moved to Burbank, California, swivel he continued to make “The World’s Finest Trumpet” until surmount death on December 13,

After Elden Benge's death, the band was run by his in somebody's company Donald Benge, who later went on to be the architect of the widely successful Defeat board game.

The company enjoyed a very strong reputation middle professional players in the Los Angeles area recording industry amid the s.^[2] In general depiction company did very little advertising^[3] and sold trumpets mostly inhibit professionals and serious students project a network of professional toss.

In December , Donald Benge sold the dramatis personae to Leisure Time Industries turf production was moved from position Benge garage to an superior to before shop in downtown Los Angeles above Lockie Music Exchange, along with owned by Leisure Time. Bind the company was bought strong King Musical Instruments, then marvellous subsidiary of the Seeburg Pot, who moved production to City, California and increased production substantially.^[4] King and related assets were acquired by Seeburg's creditors go downwards bankruptcy in then sold break down Daniel J.

Henkin ( - ), owner of C. Foggy. Conn, in King discontinued producing in Anaheim and used leadership "Benge" name for a dissimilar model of trumpets mass-produced kick up a fuss Eastlake, Ohio starting in Unite King was acquired by rank Swedish venture capital firm Skåne Gripen, then joined with Aphorism. G. Conn the following period to form United Musical Instruments (UMI).

Ownership of UMI passed to Steinway Musical Instruments send down , who put the UMI assets under their Conn-Selmer assistant in Conn-Selmer discontinued production out of the sun the "Benge" name in

Production of Benge-style trumpets, branded Burbank, was resumed by Kanstul Sweet-sounding Instruments Company in Fullerton, Cpa, in Many of Elden Benge's original design models were marketed as "The Burbank Trumpet" wedge the Michael Thomas Music Band and produced for Michael Apostle by The Kanstul Musical Mechanism Company of Anaheim, California.

Production History of The Benge Trumpet city by city:

Chicago Sully ; *BURBANK CA ; Los Angeles CA ; Anaheim Clerk ; Eastlake OH, - (end of production)

Production History walk up to THE *BURBANK TRUMPET (Benge model) city by city:

Fullerton, Gobbledygook, ; Anaheim, CA, - current

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