Cornet Franz Schediwy

When was this cornet created?How to determine the production date?

 

Franz Schediwy, founder and owner of a company Ludwigsburg, Germany, which manufactured and sold fine brass instruments for orchestral use. The firm, F. Schediwy, manufactured a line of well built brass that is an uncommon find today. Here is more:
Instrument builder and horn player from Bohemia.

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He settled in Stuttgart and founded the company in Ludwigsburg, he held the patents for the special Schediwy valve system which he developed. His son, Franz, inherited the company.

Franz Schediwy was born on 28. NOV 1851 in Daschitz / Bohemia. He studied music and instrument manufacturing in Vienna/Austria and relocated to Ludwigsburg (near Stuttgart/Germany) in 1875 to launch his own company.

His instruments were famous throughout Europe in the beginning 20th century. In 1899 he patented the "Cross-Cornet" with a very special rotary valve system. The valves are ordered as a triangle. Therefore he received a gold medal from the German emperor Wilhelm II in 1916.

After his death on 5. NOV 1933 his son Franz inherited the company. Franz died in WW II in NOV 1944. In 1945 his widow rented the company to the music dealer Robert Barth in Stuttgart. They successfully manufactured and repaired all kinds of brass instruments inside the "Radio Barth" music company.

When Barth stopped all activities in 1995 the last master craftsman Norbert Boepple organised a buy out of the brass instrument shop and relocated to Ditzingen (near Stuttgart). He is actually producing fine hand made professional trumpets, flugelhorns and cornets in the old tradition of master Schediwy which are sold worldwide under the J*B*S label. Norbert Boepples son Lukas is about to inherit the company.

 

started own business in Ludwigsburg in 1875. will certainly have taken a while till he became Hofmusikinstrumentenfabrikant and württembergischer königlicher Hoflieferant.
the kingdom of Württemberg peacefully deceased in 1918, but it may be that he still hung on to his titles. in 1933 latest it was over with those titles and he called it a day as well.
company taken over by son and closed 1944 when son died in France.

 

https://www.klingende-sammlung.ch/en/the-collection/database/instrument-864/
I believe I located your cornet but there is no date listed.

 

That's neat ! Sure has seen better days ! I wonder what it's story is ??

 

Kreuzkornett in Bb Franz Schediwy Ludwigsburg ca. 1900

https://www.brassunlimited.de/445600390

 

I don't know if it is worth it, but there are brass instrument repairers who could make your cornet fully functional and look brand new. As it is it looks unplayable.

 

sounds good. but certainly not produced after start of 1915 because then christmas was over and they weren't at home yet... so they switched into war production.

 

Thanks for answers!
As I understand it, this cornet was made in the period from 1900 to 1915?

 

1900 is certified by the Patentschrift in flipper's link; 1915 is my own guess due to the era when the Germans went to war in 1914 with many volunteers, shouting and singing " we will be back at xmas" because they thought , they win the war in a few months. well, it was christmas 1918 ... but they were never at the height of things... 1000 German years are 12 normal years...

 

Do you think this model is made to potent?
By the way, the inscriptions on that 1900 model look like newer?

 

same inscription, same crown at top. yours looks so maltreated that this is no indication of age anymore.
the idea to get it repaired for a rational price is so abstruse to me that I'll sell it as parts supply.
the mentioned Boepple family in the google-translated newspaper article by laura may know more about the desirability of your instrument as a whole or as stock for parts; I'd contact them directly with a few pics.

info@musik-boepple.de

http://www.musik-boepple.de/Kontakt/

 

The ornament on the crown is still a little different. But perhaps there were different variations. I’ll check how the instrument will play. But the metal is dented in places. The package is still on the way.

 

you keep

us posted, please.