Horn-u-Copia's Display of Makers

Started in Paris in 1860s producing all wind and string instruments. The Thibouville family included Martin, Eugene Adrien Camille, Jerome, Andre, and Louis. And associations including: freres, frere, frere aine, pere, pere& fils, Beranger, Buffett, Cabart, Coudervillain, Creutzer, Grandin, Herouard, Lamy, Noblet, Noe, Noe & files. There were a number of companies with the Thibouville name in France and this history covers those who made or sold brass instruments.

Jerome Thibouville-Lamy

• 1839 company starts as Husson & Duchene, Paris
• 1848 company changes to Husson & Buthod
• 1857 Louis Martin Thibouville joins them to form Husson, Buthod & Thibouville, Paris
• 1861 H,B&T opens a factory at Grenelle, Paris for brass inst.
• 1865 located at rue Reaumur 42 bis, Paris
• 1866 Louis Emile Jerome Thibouville (son of Louis Martin) registers his trademark lyre & JTL logo (top photo)
• 1867 Jerome advertises factory at Grenelle for brass, strings and organs, at Mirecourt for strings, and at La Couture for woodwinds
• 1874 Jerome awarded French patent #104550 for brass instrument key
• 1875 now at rue Reaumur 68 & 70
• 1878 employs workforce of 420 at four factories
• 1880 opens branch in London at #10 Charterhouse St
• 1885 employs workforce of 1,000
• 1887 registers trademark lyre with bird in horn (4th photo)
• 1889 son Louis Jerome Emile Thibouville partners with Alexandre Acoulon 1889 opens agency in New York City, #106 Mercer St.
• 1896-1908 Acoulon is proprietor
• 1897 NY office now at #35 Great Jones St.
• 1899 NY office with Leon Duchatellier, agent
• 1900 now located at 68 & 68bis rue Reaumur, Paris; incorporate in December in NY as Jerome Thibouville-Lamy & Co. with Leopold Thibouville, Alfred Alcoulon & Emile Beranger
• 1905 now at 68bis & 72 rue Reaumur, Paris
• 1909 listing gone from NYC
• 1926 employed 1,000 workers at Grenelle, La Couture, Mirecourt (top photo), Poussey & Chateau Thierry
• 1932 now just listed at 68bis rue Reaumur, Paris
• 1951 still at same address

Martin Thibouville Aine

• 1820 Martin Thibouville (1793-1873) establishes a musical instrument factory in La Couture-Boussey, France, east of Paris
• 1823 son Nicolas Eugene Thibouville born
• 1848 a second location is now at 67 rue des Vieux Augustus, Paris and working with two sons Martin & Eugene
• 1855 Martin & son Martin split with Eugene and move to 69 rue des Vieux Augustus; flutes & clarinets
• 1875 Martin Thibouville et Cie. located at La Courture
• 1878 still at the 69 Augustus address, Martin Sr dies in May and the company becomes M. Thibouville Fils
• 1889 now at 91 rue de Turenne, Paris (2nd photo, probably sax)

Eugene Thibouville

• 1855 starts his own shop at 67 rue des Vieux Augustus, Paris then later moves to Ivry-la-Bataille (near La Couture)
• 1858 partners with Noblet (another source says 1862) (3rd & 4th photos)
• 1874 Noblet & Thibouville no longer together
• 1875 listed as Eugene Thibouville, Ivry-la-Bataille
• 1887 Eugene has a contract with Hubart & Persin of Paris to supply horns, cornets, trombones & violas
• 1889 two sons of Eugene, Adrien & Camille, establish and use the name ‘Eugene Thibouville a Ivry La Bataille’
• 1891 Eugene dies in December and the two sons continue under his name (bottom photo & first 3 photos next page)
• 1898 Adrien acquires two factories in Ivry-La-Bataille from M. Duval, a comb maker
• 1909 Camille leaves to form his own company but instruments are very rare; Adrien continues with his two sons Eugene (1884-1915) and George (1886-1957), operating the Portelle plant
• 1911 the Portelle plant is leased to Adrien’s sons under the name ‘Thibouville Brothers Ivry’
• 1915 brother Eugene dies in WWI at Souchez
• 1919 the factory at Moulin is sold
• 1923 Adrien dies
• 1940 the factory is closed following no activity during WWII
• 1947 George Thibouville joins Maurice Masson making woodwinds
• 1974 the company is sold to Couesnon

Thibouville-Creutzer

• 1890 Andre Thibouville, successor to Lefevre, 148 rue du Theatre Grenelle, Paris; woodwinds
• 1900 ‘Thibouville fils et Cie.’, successor to Bie & Noblet at La Couture and Lafevre of Paris
• 1902 Thibouville-Creutzer, 17 Rochechouart Boulevard, Paris
• 1903 T-C, 148 rue du Theatre Grenelle, Paris, run by Andre’s son Desire Etienne Thibouville
• 1905 now at 50 Temple
• 1909 Thibouville-Creutzer, successor, 50 rue du Faubourg-du- Temple, Paris; woodwinds & brass (4th photo) c.1910 now in bankruptcy Lefevre, Paris cornet bottom right