![]() ![]() The story goes that Ed Sonfield, owner of Bruno, was strolling on a Paris street one day in the late 1950s when in amazement he was stopped in his tracks as a cornet lamp was grouped with other oddities in a window display at a small store. I could only say “wow” and repeated it several times, for to this day I’ve never seen a more beautiful cornet. “You know," he said slowly, “if you like these short cornets, you should see what we just received,” and with that he whipped out the French Besson. ![]() He went “mm, mm, mm” and then “yum, yum” as he studied my old horn. I had briefly met Fred Hoy, absolute ruler at C. Bruno and Sons San Antonio office and came face to face with a brand new French Besson Brevette cornet. ![]() The negotiated price had been $7.īut now I had my eye on a new horn, as one day I walked into the C. Bruno and Sons model that I purchased from a San Antonio pawn shop. The original had served me well-a 1910 C. After about two years of fascinated blowing with my first cornet, I began to think of a new horn. ![]()
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