Maker/Dealer
Lecomte
Paris
France
1859 - 1910
1850s worked with brass maker Gautrot
1859 established by Arsene Zoe Lecomte (1818-1892)
- 1860 registered trademark tuning fork & A.L. & Cie
1862 work force of 100
1874 designed a duplex clarion / trumpet
1875 registered A. Lecomte & Cie. Paris trademark
1876 located at Rue St. Gilles 12, Paris; exhibited in
Philadelphia, PA
1888 first maker to apply part of the Boehm system to the
saxophone
1889 merged with Massain & Thibouville to add woodwind
instruments
1890 registered trademark name with rue St. Gilles 12 added
1892 Lecomte dies
- 1898 Charles & Jacques Ullmann are successors
Brass instruments were imported to the US by Lehnert (Phila.),
D.C. Hall (Boston), C.J. Whitney (Detroit), Lyon & Healy.
Imports to Canada were by Peter Grossman of Hamilton and A&S
Nordheimer of Toronto.
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