![]() ![]() After the reorganization, the company limited itself to producing band instruments. In 1904 the business was reorganized and renamed the Buescher Band Instrument Company. In 1903 there was a disastrous bank crash which affected Buescher’s factory and a number of other local businesses. In March 1901 he patented a cornet unusual in that the valves were of unequal lengths. Collins, a clothing merchant, and Harry L. Main Street which made band instruments and other metal products, in partnership with John L. In the fall of 1894 he opened the Buescher Manufacturing Company at 1119 N. In 1890 while still employed with Conn, he began producing band emblems at home and was setting up his own shop. Conn’s fledgling band instrument factory, and in 1888 he was promoted to foreman. He accompanied his family to Goshen, Indiana and then to Elkhart in 1875. The company was founded by Ferdinand August “Gus” Buescher (born Elk Township, Noble County, Ohio 26 April 1861 died Elkhart, Indiana 29 November 1937).
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