Contents • • • • • • • • • Frank Holton [ ] Frank E. Holton was born March 10, 1858 in, Michigan to farmers Otis (b. 1827) and Hanna A. 1829) Holton. He grew up with three sisters: Emma E. Holton, Alice Holton and Leona Holton. By the time he was 34, Frank Holton was an accomplished trombone player and principal trombone of the Band, a role that would later be filled.

In 1885 he had partnered with in York & Holton, York's successor to the instrument maker Smith & York which became J.W. York and Sons before Holton established his own company in 1898. Frank Holton's wife Florence was a music teacher. They had no children.

This guide shows first the professional, and then the student, Bb cornets and trumpets produced by Frank Holton & Co. A list of all models. The accepted serial number list is off in the early years. The 1909/10 horn. Starting with the Collegiate 508 trumpet and 504 cornet (and corresponding SuperCollegiate. May 18, 2011. Hi I have Holton collegiate cornet deluxe serial number 218947 can someone tell me what year it was produced. On Holton loyalist page it says it is.

Frank Holton, though not an instrument maker himself, expanded his company to manufacture instruments which was his occupation until retiring at age 80. Frank Holton died after a protracted illness on April 16, 1942 at the age of 84. The Frank Holton Company [ ] Chicago [ ] Frank Holton's first business venture on his own was a small rented shop with a desk, two counters and two chairs that he had to paint himself at Clark and Madison streets in Chicago, in 1898, where he sold used instruments and his own formula slide oil for. Unable to make the rent at times, Holton was known to pawn instruments at a shop on Clark Street between 1898 and 1900. By 1907, a skilled horn maker had been hired, and the production of Holton instruments required the construction of a factory on the of Chicago. Musicmatch Jukebox Crack Fr. It would be home to Frank Holton & Company for only a decade. Elkhorn [ ] In April 1918, Holton opened a factory in, Wisconsin moving over 200 employees and 85 of machinery from Chicago.