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From The HornTraders’ Quiver Couesnon Star  SN/ 74035 Stamped with a ‘B’ on the 2nd valve.  It’s a Smokey Euro Jazz Horn (Circa 1964)

Excellent sounding Flugel!!!!! SN# 73353  The lacquer finish on this horn looks average for a horn of this age (About 70%). Valves are excellent. Horn plays GREAT! If you want a dark warm sounding flugel this is the one! Excellent fast valves. Smokey dark flugel sound. This horn is the bomb! No other flugel compares with the sound of Couesnon Flugel!. All valves & slides are excellent, tight, they work free & easy, excellent compression. It’s has some scratches, and appearance of dent repairs, really minor stuff. I love these horns!!!!!! This horn was bought new in 1964, I think, it’s a pretty good horn/sounds excellent for sure. Perfect for Show work and jazz soloing.   These horns will even play better with a Charlie Melk tuning shank sbut still plays great with original Couesnon pipe.  Comes with original Flug Hard Case and a Bach 3Fl Case.  The mouthpiece fits really good.

The serial numbers of the Couesnon Fluges is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. A fire in 1978 destroyed all records of these great horns.Couesnon is one of the great names in brass instruments, in business over 170 years. It grew to include eight factories employing, at one time, over 1800 people in France. In the USA in the 1950s, the Couesnon flugelhorn became very popular as a doubling instrument for jazz trumpet artists. Their flugelhorn sounded great, was readily available, and was cheap. They were everywhere. Inported to the states by Gretsch in the 60’s this horn still has the warranty card!  Its design is copied by the overwhelming majority of instrument makers who now make and market flugelhorns. More Pictures upon request.  Take a look at a Couesnon Flugel just a few serial numbers off.  New Video Soon.