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Birker

Baritone Saxophone. Made in Tilburg, Netherlands
Birker
N/A
Baritone
1927
Netherlands
Bb
B-E♭
Brass
19
98.8
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ohann Birker  came to Tilburg in 1899 to work in the Kessels factory. He started his own company in the mid 1920s, after the Kessels company was dissolved in 1924. Birker went bankrupt in 1931.

the Birker workshop in Tilburg, second half of the 1920s

My book about the saxophone in the Netherlands, in which I write about Birker, can be accessed on my website:

https://vanzoelen.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/proefschrift-van-zoelen.zip

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