# Vincent Bach
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{{Infobox musical artist
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| birth_name = Vincent Freiherr von Schrottenbach
| alias = Vincent Schrottenbach
| birth_date = March 24, 1890
| birth_place = [Baden bei Wien](/source/Baden_bei_Wien), Austria-Hungary
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| death_date = {{Death date and age|1976|01|08|1890|03|24}}
| death_place = New York City, U.S.
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| occupation = Musician, Manufacturer
| instrument = Trumpet
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| label = [Edison Records](/source/Edison_Records)
| past_member_of = [Boston Symphony Orchestra](/source/Boston_Symphony_Orchestra), [Metropolitan Opera](/source/Metropolitan_Opera)
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'''Vincent Freiherr von Schrottenbach''' (March 24, 1890 – January 8, 1976), known professionally as '''Vincent Bach''', was an Austrian and American musician and [instrument](/source/Musical_instrument) maker, who founded the [Vincent Bach Corporation](/source/Vincent_Bach_Corporation).
== Vincent Schrotenbach ==
[[File:High-brass-x6-large.jpg|thumb|right|[Brass instrument](/source/Brass_instrument)s]]
He was born as '''Vincent Freiherr von Schrottenbach''' in [Baden bei Wien](/source/Baden_bei_Wien)[{{cite web |url=http://www.bachloyalist.com/history/vincentbach.htm |title=Vincent Bach |publisher=Bach Loyalist |access-date=July 23, 2010}}] near Vienna, Austria.[Priestly, Brian, Dave Gelly, Tony Bacon, The sax & brass book, Miller Freeman Books, San Francisco, CA, 1998, P. 1970] He received training on the violin and bugle as a youth switching to trumpet at age 12.[Hempley, Roy & Lehrer, Doug, Play it again Mr. Bach, 2002, Bachology essay at http://www.bachbrass.com/bachology/article.php?uid=4 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110904211920/http://www.bachbrass.com/bachology/article.php?uid=4 |date=September 4, 2011 }} retrieved May 31, 2011]
Bach graduated from Maschinenbauschule with an engineering degree, at the age of 20. During his subsequent compulsory military service, he served in the [Austro-Hungarian Imperial Navy](/source/Austro-Hungarian_Navy). That was followed by a period as an elevator operator before being called up a second time during which he served as a military musician in the Austrian Marine Band.[{{cite web |url=http://www.bachbrass.com/history/ |title=History of Bach Stradivarius |publisher=Bach Brass |access-date=July 23, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091130185935/http://www.bachbrass.com/history/ |archive-date=November 30, 2009 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}] During his first 3 years in the US, Bach pursued many musical ventures including composing solos, recording on the Edison label, writing a short pamphlet version of his later ''The Art of Trumpet Playing'' and endorsing Holton instruments.["Vaudeville: Hippodrome." San Francisco Examiner, 11 July 1915, 47.] and Los Angeles.["Big Allegory at 'Hip." Los Angeles Evening Express, 15 July 1915, 17("formerly cornet virtuoso of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.").]
While touring in Pittsburgh, Bach's mouthpiece was destroyed by a repairman's attempts to rework it. On his return to New York, Bach began experimenting with [brass](/source/Brass_instrument) [mouthpieces](/source/Mouthpiece_(brass)).[Note: This was the same field artillery regiment credited with bringing the "Cassion Song" to [John Philip Sousa](/source/John_Philip_Sousa) in 1917. The result, "The Caisson Song," would become the official [U.S. Army](/source/United_States_Army) [march](/source/March_(music)), "[The Army Goes Rolling Along](/source/The_Army_Goes_Rolling_Along)." See [http://skyways.lib.ks.us/orgs/mcb/Library/M0126.htm http://skyways.lib.ks.us/orgs/mcb/Library/M0126.htm] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070211144010/http://skyways.lib.ks.us/orgs/mcb/Library/M0126.htm |date=February 11, 2007 }}]
He was married on 29 April 1925 to Esther Staab in New York City.["Miss Staab Bride of Vincent Bach." Chattanooga (TN) Daily Times, 10 May 1925, 27.]
The last time Vincent Bach took a job as a performer was during 1926, one year after attaining his US citizenship when he accepted one more orchestral position for only a matter of months. His only other public performances were as a soloist on the radio and records between 1927 and 1929 promoting his instruments.["Vincent Bach Is Now First Trumpeter for Roxy." Musical Merchandise 4:2 (April 1927), 26.]
==Bach company==
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[[File:Embouchure - montage.jpg|thumb|left|Vincent Bach trumpet [mouthpiece](/source/Mouthpiece_(brass))]]
Bach established a mouthpiece business in the back of the Selmer music store in New York after being released from the military in 1918, and by 1920 was advertising a business location at 204 E. 85th.["Bach Mouthpieces Help You Earn More" (advertisement). New York Tribune, 17 October 1920, 47.] He expanded to the production of trumpets and cornets under the "[Stradivarius](/source/Stradivarius)" name (to project an image of quality) in 1924. By 1928, he relocated to a Bronx factory adding trombones to his product line. The company survived the depression and by 1953 moved to Mount Vernon New York. Collaborating with [Georges Mager](/source/Georges_Mager), during World War II, Bach developed the large bore C Trumpet that would become the standard of symphonic trumpeters in America.[Hempley, Roy & Lehrer, Doug, TO THE BACK OF THE CONCERT HALL THE EVOLUTION OF BACH STRADIVARIUS C TRUMPETS, 2011 at http://www.bachbrass.com/bachology/article.php?uid=12 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927150903/http://www.bachbrass.com/bachology/article.php?uid=12 |date=September 27, 2011 }} retrieved August 26, 2011] In 1961, at 71 years of age, Bach sold his company to the [Conn-Selmer](/source/Conn-Selmer) corporation even though some of the other 13 bids he received were higher.[Rehrig, William, Hoe, Robert, The heritage encyclopedia of band music: composers and their music: Volume 1, Integrity Press, 1991, p.33] Two of Bach's bugles figured prominently in the funerals of US presidents: One played for [John F. Kennedy](/source/John_F._Kennedy), [Dwight Eisenhower](/source/Dwight_Eisenhower) and [Lyndon Johnson](/source/Lyndon_Johnson), and is on display at [Arlington National Cemetery](/source/Arlington_National_Cemetery);[Hempley, Roy & Lehrer, Doug, Bach's Bugles, 2004 at http://www.bachbrass.com/bachology/article.php?uid=7 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110904212029/http://www.bachbrass.com/bachology/article.php?uid=7 |date=September 4, 2011 }} retrieved May 31, 2011] A second one played at the funeral of [Ronald Reagan](/source/Ronald_Reagan) and was subsequently retired to the [Reagan Library](/source/Reagan_Library).[Royce, Knut, Bugle will go to Reagan Library, Newsday, June 10, 2004] This was chosen after a week-long process in which the Reagan family, Bach's grand-nephew (John Vincent Bach[Bach, John Vincent, Vincent Bach grand-nephew]), the military and the bugler involved decided not to use the Kennedy bugle in favor of the one that the performer had used for two decades.
==Later years==
After the sale of the business, Vincent Bach stayed on as a researcher[Dundas, Richard, 20th Century Brass Musical Instruments in the United States, p.5] continuing to work until at least 1974.[Pavlakis, Christopher, The American music handbook, The Free Press, Calhun Publishing, 1974, p. 655,] Bach died January 8, 1976, in New York.