[TPIN] Benge Resno Tempered 3

[Greg Goodknight]

It might be interesting to know what the Besson management thought of 
misters Benge, Schilke and Bach making copies of French Bessons and 
improving on them? Did they even know?

-Greg

Richard Mason wrote:
> This is a UMI horn which means it's an OK horn, not special, not great, just OK.  The older Benge horns from Los Angeles, Burbank, or Chicago are the real keepers.  To illustrate that point here is an excerpt from the Etude magazine on December 1950:
>    
>   "The good word about the new Benge instrument spread among the members of the profession, and what was merely a hobby 12 years ago has become a thriving business. Today the Boston Symphony uses the Benge custom built C trumpet exclusively; the Minneapolis and Toronto Symphonies each have at least six Benge trumpets in use, and the Chicago, Pittsburgh and San Francisco Symphonies employ the Benge B-flat cornet and the E-flat and D trumpets. Top-flight trumpet players everywhere call On Benge to solve their trumpet problems. "
>    
>   Keep in mind that Eldon was principal trumpet with the Chicago Symphony, so he played well enough to know a good horn from a mediocre horn.  If you read the entire Etude article it talks about Eldon learning to make all the parts for the horns on a lathe in his basement.  His neighbor was Renold Schilke, who also was principal trumpet with the CSO after Eldon.  Ren and Eldon worked together on the early Chicago horns.  Ren was a better machinist, so was able to make the subtle changes that Eldon wanted.  Eldon would do the design and testing of the horns.  (By the way Schilke trumpets began in 1956.)
>    
>   Richard Mason
>   Denver, CO
>
> Brian Anderson <brian at mccormicksnet.com> wrote:
>   I ran across a silver Benge trumpet for sale. It says "Resno-Tempered Bell 3
> Custom Built by E. Benge, USA". Serial number is 41 375xxx.
>
> What can anyone tell me about model, age, value, popularity, playability,
> where it was made, etc.
>
> Thanks.
> Brian
>
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