This is a CD with a facsimile of a catalog from a company even most experts have never heard of.

The National Band Instrument Company was founded at the beginning of the 20th century by former Hoyer employee William Frank. It only lasted for a few short years before changing name to William Frank and Company. Finding a catalog published under the original company name is rare indeed and this is doulbe rare since it's from the transitional period and has both the old and the new name in it.

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Here are a few scaled down samples from the ebook. (You can click on the images to view slightly larger versions.)

Please note that the large images above are still much smaller than the ones on the CD.
  You can click here for a full size scan of one of the pages if you want to see the quality available from the CD. I have have to warn you though: that file is really big and can be slow to load. (That's one of the reasons why I sell this ebook on CD rather than as a download.)

Description Key data Title: Catalogue Number 4 Publishers: National Band Instrument Company / William Frank and Company Country: USA Area: Chicago, Illinois Date: c. 1920 (1915 - 1925) Language: English CD edition: No. of scans: 12 Resolution: 360 dpi Ebook size: 28.3 MB Order code: NationalBrass4 Physical description of the original The size is 19.7 cm height and 27.9 cm width. The pages are 18.5x27.4 cm. The eight numbered pages are printed black-and-white on high quality glossy paper. The oversize cover is made from heavy, greenish-brown porous paper and printed in dark reddish-brown. A sticker with the name and address of William Frank and Company has been added to the inside of the front cover and there is evidence that  similar stickers once covered the other occurences of the original company name as well. Presumably the copany changed name while this catalog was still in circulation. The catalog is center-bound with two staples. Dating A selection of lip excercises by Edward Llewllyn has a 1915 copyright date and a special mouthpiece design called the "Logical Mouthpiece" has a patent date of June 28, 1915. Content The catalog presents National/William Frank's range of two cornets, one trumpet, one trombone and one bugle - each with a full page with a picture and a rather detailed description. The bugle is the old keyless one. William Frank is often credited as the inventor of the American keyed bugle but this catalog dates back to well before that happened. In addition there is one page promoting the "Logical Mouthipece" (an assymetric mouthpiece patented in 1913 and one promoting a collection of lip drills by Edward Llewellyn. Format The CD presents the catalog in a choice of three different formats: high resolution (360 dpi) JPEG scans for maximum quality, HTML format allowing you to leaf through the scans as if it was a paper book and PDF format for quick reference with all pages in a single document. It is readable on any reasonably modern computer with a CD drive.

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This auction is for a digital reproduction on CD of an antique print. The copyrights for the original have expired and it is now in the public domain.

The copyrights for the scans and the editorial content of the ebook is held by me - © 2007-2008 Frank Nordberg.
  The buyer of the CD is granted permission to use the content for his/her own pleasure and work but not to redistribute without explicit permission, except under some conditions specified in the copyrights file included on the CD and available from me on request.

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