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formed in 1930. Originally a bookshop from the 1790s, Boosey by the mid-19th century was using specialist wind instrument makers. The acquisition of Distin's business positioned Boosey to become a leading brass and band instrument company. The original company name was retained to 1874; the works
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Some time after the
American tour of 1849, Henry John Distin (1819â1903), the second son of John and Ann Matilda. established his own instrument manufacturing and sales concern, Distin & Co., in London. He sold Adolph Sax's instruments alongside his own traditional brass instruments. He was
255:. That year, John Distin and his second son Henry set up a business, Distin & Sons, in London, dealing in sheet music and musical instruments. The instrument business also stocked saxhorns; and the quintet publicised the saxhorn range. In that same year, 1845, the first ever
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in 1844, and that year the Distin family encountered him in Paris, and adopted the new range of brass instruments. This was a fundamental change to valved brass, from keyed and slide mechanisms. The
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Adelphi Theatre, Edinburgh. The initial instrumentation was John Distin on slide trumpet, and his four teenage sons on three horns and a
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The eldest of the sons, George (born 1818), died in 1848, and the touring group then became a quartet. His mother also died the same year. The family business Distin & Sons was then dissolved.
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The brass instruments used by the early
Quintet were from the Pace family of instrument makers, founded in 18th-century Dublin by Matthew Pace. The players combined the keyed bugle,
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Matilda Distin (nÊe Loder) (1786â1848) in 1829 married John Distin as her second husband. She had previously been married to Thomas Edmund Ridgway (1780â1829).
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as well as the keyed bugle. On the king's death in 1830, the band was dissolved, and he spent a number of years in
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Distin remained a performer and marketer of brass instruments. At the age of 70, he was still performing, playing
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Henry Distin subsequently lost most of his money on concert schemes and other ventures, within a few years.
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awarded a prize medal for the superiority of his instruments over European competitors at the Paris
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