Object Details maker Getzen Company, Inc. Description This trumpet was made by Getzen Company, Inc. in Elkhorn, Wisconsin in 1963. It is a B-flat slide trumpet made of brass and nickel plate. This ...

The Getzen Co. was founded in Elkhorn in 1939."We make a full line of trumpets, trombones, cornets fluglehorns, bugles and piccolo trumpets, just brass winds,” said Getzen president Brett Getzen ...

A 1959 Getzen advertisement for this instrument, with the endorsement of American jazz trumpeter Bobby Hackett indicates, “Cornet players…trumpet players…trombone players…beginners too - for those new ...