By early 2010, however, the museum had closed. The Band Museum offered the occasional concert, sponsoring performances by the Russian Red Star Review, the Happy-Times Jazz Band, the Pine Bluff Community Concert Band, and the Sonny Land Big Band. Many items in the collection were novelties that were designed to entertain concert audiences, including a self-player clarinet, a self-player sax, and a “walking stick” flute made in London circa 1850. There were two saxophones, a soprano and an alto, that Adolphe Sax himself made. Included was a saxophone of early jazz great Sidney Bechet, as well as a stubby little cornet once played by Merle Evans, a famed band leader in the Ringling Brothers Circus his custom horn has shorter tubing so that he could stay in tune with the wobbly toned steam calliopes. Other pieces in the collection took their fame from their players. The double-belled euphonium has a valve to switch from one bell to the other, and while this renders a slightly lighter tone, such a feature was strictly a novelty item. The euphonium was popular in the 1900s and was a regular feature in John Philip Sousa’s concerts. Included were numerous rarities, such as a hard-rubber clarinet (as well as several five- and seven-key Noblet clarinets), a C-melody saxophone, piccolo trumpets, and double-belled euphoniums. Many were used in the circus, vaudeville, military, schools, concert halls, or dance halls. The focus of the museum was the array of instruments, which dated from the 1700s to the 1950s. The Band Museum officially opened in 1994. Pine Bluff’s city fathers donated a three-story building on Main Street to Horne with the stipulation that he renovate it and open a museum.
His collection quickly outgrew its first home, a glass display case in the Wallick store in downtown Pine Bluff. Soon, he began scouring flea markets, scrutinizing store trade-ins, and attending liquidation sales in a search for rare, odd, and historically significant pieces. CONN Company in 1925, which he found in the Wallick family’s garage. Between 19 Leblanc introduced saxophones under the Vito-Japan line, consisting of alto and tenor saxophones from Yamaha (7131 models), and soprano, alto, and baritone saxophones from Yanagisawa (VSP models). His first was an old helicon (similar to a sousaphone), made by the C. During the mid-to-late 1960s Leblanc started sourcing saxophone parts from Yamaha for the Vito-Kenosha line, producing saxophones with both American and Japanese parts. Jerry Horne, founder of the Band Museum and a member of the American Musical Instrument Society, began collecting unusual instruments when he purchased the Wallick Music Company in 1970. Beginning as the personal collection of its founder, the museum grew to approximately 1,500 antique instruments and was, before its closure, the only museum in the United States devoted entirely to the history of band music and instruments.
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