"Charles Kretzschmann In Strasbourg, Rare Cornet With 2 Pistons In Its Case"
"Charles Kretzschmann in Strasbourg, rare 2-piston cornet in its box with all its accessories from the 1850s, ivory piston tips. This cornet is perfectly playable, we had a demonstration of it by a trumpeter known in our Jazz club" "Even if the production of Charles Kretzschmann was very influenced by German craftsmanship, it will remain by its diversity and its creativity of French spirit: the keyed, circular, half-moon trumpets, the whelks, ophicleides show that this provincial maker was at the level of the best Parisian makers. With the exception perhaps of one or two makers from Lyon, no provincial brass maker produced such a variety of instruments at the beginning of the 19th century.""" 
Le Magazine de PROANTIC
TRÉSORS Magazine
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