Martin Handcraft Imperial

This 1940 Martin Handcraft Imperial has just come back from getting a valve job and is a stunning piece of brass history. It has been restored with a beautiful brushed finish followed by a coat of lacquer. It is missing one of the stop rod posts, as pictured.

From the Martin 1934 catalog: The name Imperial fits perfectly the supreme excellence of these fine instruments. Built of the finest procurable materials and with painstaking care by thoroughly skilled and conscientious craftsmen who are paid by the day, not by the piece, they are singularly free from any of the impediments to perfect performance so often found in band instruments.

Valves and slides are of wear proof nickel silver, hand ground to perfect smoothness and air and water-tight fit. Bells made of yellow trumpet brass, hand hammered to perfect temper and resilience but still heavy enough to give the instrument an unfathomable depth of power through every register. Extremely flexible and susceptible to tone placing so that any player who will familiarize himself with an Imperial Martin Trumpet or Cornet can "sing" on it with perfect ease, each tone coming right where his ear anticipates it.

Dopes not come with case.