| Mr. David Anderson contributed the following information
Mr. T.M. Koeder was a music teacher in Naperville Il. for Years. He also had a little home based business attached to his home, where he would repair, and build trumpets. It was a little shop on School Street in Naperville Il.
He custom built these trumpets for various clients over the years, from around 1920 to about the time of his death in the early 1970s. His son then took over the business after he retired as a teacher, and continued repairing and building custom built instruments until his death in the late 1980s.
I remember as a child watching Mr. Koeder repair my fathers trumpets in his shop. It was awsume. He custom crafted the bells and tubing off a giant belt lathe, which hung from the ceiling of his shop. I used to watch him make the bells of the horns off this huge machine. Awsume. I will never forget the experience.
My dad whom was a professional musician, owned one of these horns. It was custom built to his specifications. It had a sound all of its own. It was like having a Bach nowadays custom tweeked with different slides, and bells..
He did alot of work for the Naperville Municipal Band Members.
Some of these horns still exsist, as we have seen here on Ebay, and the person whom owns it will get a treasure for sure.
Like I said, they were all custom built horns, and very few of them are still in existance.
Ellermans music shop in Naperville Il. I beleive still has the remnants of some of the replacement parts for these horns.
For more info on Mr. Koeder, I suggest you contact the Naperville Il. Historic society. I am sure they will have pictures of his shop, and more info on Mr. Koeder, and his son.
David Anderson
Like I mentioned, my dad owned one of these horns until his death, when I then Donated it to there museum as a collectors piece.
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