Special model (Radio model configuration). Trumpet in B-flat by Getzen, Elkhorn, Wisconsin, before 1963. Cornet in E-flat (HP) by Distin, London, ca. Cornet in B-flat by Antoine Courtois, Paris, after 1904. Trumpet in C/B-flat/A by Buescher, Elkhart, 1927. Cornet in E-flat (HP) by Besson and Co., ca. Cornet in B-flat/A by Besson, London, ca. Cornet in B-flat by Vincent Bach, Elkhart, Indiana, 1985. Inventory of the Arnold Ruskin Collection The Ruskin Collection is available to researchers and scholars by appointment in the NMM's Sally Fantle Archival Research Center. Olds & Son until the original company's demise in 1979." White.Ī collection of 145 mouthpieces, books about brass instruments, trumpet and cornet instruction manuals, music, instrument manufacturers' trade material, periodicals, and brass instrument accessories were also included in this substantive donation.Īs the Ruskin collection continues to be cataloged and photographed, NMM staff members are simultaneously contributing valuable research data to " The Olds Register" website, an online research database that is "attempting to document and publish to the greatest extent possible, the production log and current whereabouts of the trumpets and cornets produced by F. With the addition of the Ruskin collection, the NMM's holdings of Olds instruments, which previously included twenty-two trombones, fourteen cornets and trumpets, a horn, and a sousaphone, was increased to 160 representative examples.Īn additional thirty-one trumpets and cornets by other makers are also represented in the Ruskin Collection, including instruments by Bach, Benge, Besson, Buescher, Courtois, Distin, Getzen, Higham, Jay, Marbeau, Pepper, Reynolds, Rexcraft, Wagner, and H. According to Olds researcher and noted brass instrument restorer/maker, Robb Stewart (Arcadia, California), Ruskins' collection "was probably the most complete collection of Olds brasses in private hands." The author of two books concerning project management, Ruskin also published more than 35 papers in the fields of engineering and management.Īs an amateur trumpet player and collector, Ruskin systematically assembled a collection of 122 cornets, trumpets, and flugelhorns representing virtually every model made by F.
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in engineering from the University of Michigan, was a registered professional engineer and Professor of Engineering at Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California (1963-1973), prior to co-founding the influential Claremont Consulting Group. An inventory of the collection can be found below.Īrnold ("Arnie") M. Olds of Los Angeles and Fullerton, California, was donated to the NMM in the fall of 2008 by the collector's widow, Nancy, of La Cañada, California. The Arnold Ruskin Collection, consisting of 153 outstanding trumpets, cornets, and flugelhorns assembled to document the models produced by F.