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ID	Instrument	Maker	Model	Serial#	Key/Pitch
11653	Trumpet	Gretsch	Commander	12387
Manufacturer: Pedler/ART This one is a bit different than the usual Gretsch Commanders made by Harry Pedler/ART... Instead of the ordinary/reverse-wrap Commanders based on the American Triumph, based on the King Liberty It has a nested Esbach slide for tuning to A, threaded bottom slide leg for tuning adjuster [long gone], X-braced Esbach slide, and three-point piston guides. a proprietary receiver which basically only accepts Large Morse flugelhorn mouthpieces, and the bell does not have a thick-bead, rounded rim. The rim is folded over and flat It responds really nicely in the upper register
5440	Cornet	Gretsch	Artist

4784	Sousaphone	Gretsch

4645	Trumpet	Gretsch	Monopole
Length 20 1/4in
4223	Cornet	Gretsch	American Junior	2827
bore .438 Believed to be made by Wm Frank
3954	Trombone	Gretsch	Commander	290427

3837	Bugle	Gretsch

3633	Euphonium	Gretsch		2899

3509	Trombone; Sopra	Gretsch	American Model

3326	Trumpet	Gretsch	American

3224	Trumpet	Gretsch	American Crusader	5192

3028	Cornet	Gretsch	American		Bb/A
Engraved: Gretsch American Model Bb/A (possibly C/Bb/A) mouthpipe stamped Czechoslovakia. 15 Â½ in long. stuka: The American Model that Kenton posted is indeed a C/Bb/A horn. I just picked one up on eBay reconditioned to near-mint. [img]http://www.horn-u-copia.net/Docs/Gretsch-cornet.jpg[/img] The picture shows the horn in the "Bb" configuration. The picture Kenton posted shows the horn configured to "C". The two parallel slides are identical and each of the four fixed pipes are the same diameter and the same distance apart, center-to-center, both in the "horizontal" (though it is more of a 45-degree angle off-horizontal) and in the vertical plane. To change from Bb to C, both slides are pulled, and put back in so that they are parallel on a horizontal (roughly) plane rather than side-by-side and parallel in the vertical plane. As you can see in Kentons picture, the upper loop is closed and serves to store the extra slide while in the "C" configuration, so that one does not have to keep track of whether one has stored the slide in the case, or placed it somewhere else to be forgotten and lost. Pulling the slides out further allows one to play in A as well. The first and third tuning slide are marked with lines that are designated "Bb" and "A" as well. Interestingly enough, the third valve slide is the same pipe diameter and center-to-center distance as, and can be switched with, one of the twin slides, and with all the slides out full, the horn plays in "G", in tune, almost as if it were designed to do so. I have a friend who has a Getzen Eterna Severensen model trumpet who played this horn today and says it plays better than his horn, and the valves are faster and lighter. I have got a Super Deluxe Tone Balanced Getzen cornet whose valves feel much heavier than this horns valves as well. The instrument itself is very light in weight. Very sweet singing cornet tone, can comfortably be played very quietly as well. The restoration is near-perfect, it seems almost impossible that this horn is over 80 years old. The silver finish is not glossy, it has a sort-of-textured "matte".
2888	Bugle	Gretsch	American

2015	Sousaphone	Gretsch	Commander	18581
Kenton: This horn looks very much like a Cavalier Sousa.
1987	Cornet	Gretsch	American	P13517
16 in long 4 3/8 in bell.
1576	Cornet	Gretsch	President	25959
Engraved: President Fred Gretsch mfg. Co. Chicago, Brooklyn, U.S.A
1405	Trumpet	Gretsch	Pathfinder

1259	Trombone	Gretsch	Pathfinder	80258
7 1/2 in bell
1113	Trombone	Gretsch	American	1083

796	Mellophone	Gretsch

361	Cornet	Gretsch	Pathfinder	17040

325	Cornet	Gretsch	Commander	10690
Engraving: Fred Gretsch MFG Co. Chicago Brooklyn U.S.A

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