Vintage RARE Maynard Ferguson FBL Mouthpiece CM (cornet) With Adapter & OG Box

Description: This is a super rare piece produced by Maynard and sold when he was playing in England in the 1960’s. Here is some research someone online was able to piece together about these mouthpieces in general from someone who purchased a different one on eBay: For all interested about Maynard during his UK period regarding the FBL stuff I would like to share some information I gathered during my privat research: As it might be known Maynard within this period was mainly managed by Ernie Garside, who at that time managed a Music club called "Club 43" in Manchester/UK. A lot of famous american musicians have had gigs there in late 60th and early 70th. MR. Garside was a trumpeter as well and can be seen in some YouTube clips like "At the Top" later in 1974 (together with Lynn Nicholson). Garside might be known as well as being part of the "Sleepy Night Records" label offering the "Lost Tapes" volumes 1-3 which contain a lot of so far not published tracks with Maynard, some recorded life in this club with simple analogue technique. Since I got some FBL mouthpieces from a Lady in UK offering them on eBay I am interested in clearing up the circumstances about Maynard, Jack Bell and their business making the FBL mouthpieces an the Liberator trumpet. Because the Lady offering that stuff in eBay is married with her husband in his second marriage and his first marriage was with a doughter of Jack Bell's first marriage we have had some interesting conversations via email about the subject. Jack devorced from his first wife and remarried a Lady who died before Jack and left him in adverse conditions. Because of that it comes to some house clearing where a lot of FBL moutpieces where found unsold. A part was offered by Mannings Musical UK (mostly FBL TD) an by the Lady on eBay. Jack Bell was not a real mouthpiece craftsman as often stated but he was a trumpet player in the Manchester area with some reputation as well. Ob course this was not his only job: he was a taxi driver in his fathers business as well. Because Mr. Garside at that time was gathering some musicians in the Manchester area for a Big Band rehearsal in Club 43 Jack was surly included in the early bands having Maynard on front. The mouthpiece and trumpet business was not as expected and Jack later invested with more success in manufactoring drum sticks like the ones used by the drummer of Led Zeppelin (Bonham). But I was asking myself when exactly the FBL tory started and found the following in some Magizine: Announcement Crescendo Magazine March 1967 (This article is posted in the photos for this current listing) Then I also posted another longer read in photos with some more mentions of the business. I also found a previous trumpet version that was given by Maynard directly to a player after he had dropped and chipped it and it was said these were being sold on the tour. Here is that info: (Note this would be the TM version the one being sold is the CM) From my personal mouthpiece collection: this item being offered is an original F.B.L (Ferguson Bell Ltd) TM model trumpet mouthpiece actually used by Maynard Ferguson during his English band years, 1967-1974. The Ferguson Bell mouthpieces were manufactured by English trumpeter, Jack Bell. This particular mouthpiece was given to me in 1990 by former Maynard Ferguson Band manager and trumpet player, Ernie Garside, in Maynard's presence, while I was on tour with Maynard Ferguson's band in the UK. This is the tour during which we recorded the LP "Live From London" from Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club.Ernie Garside was Maynard's manager long before I joined the band. But because we were in London, Ernie came out to visit and hang with Maynard while we were there. Ernie managed Maynard and the band during the late 1960s and early 1970s when MF was using an all English band. When Ernie gave me this F.B.L. mouthpiece, he told me Maynard used this particular mouthpiece while the English band was on tour, until MF dropped it one night, causing 2 small chips on the end. They had boxes of these mouthpieces with them while they were on tour (because they were selling them after concerts). So, MF gave the chipped one to Ernie, then just grabbed another one from their road supply, and started playing it. Anyway, the mouthpiece I'm offering here is one that Maynard actually played while on tour with the English band. In 1990, Ernie told me that he wanted me to have it, because he knew it was very similar to the mouthpiece that I was then using. There are 2 small chips at the bottom of the shank on the very tip, from Maynard dropping it. This is the majority of what I know about this piece. I have yet to find another picture of a CM version of this. I make no guarantees on how it functions as an active piece but this was from the collection of a professional in the St. Louis area and he did use it at some point in time.

Price: 250 USD

Location: Troy, Missouri

End Time: 2024-08-20T17:54:09.000Z

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