Ernst Modl brass instruments

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Modl used the model names that we know from F.X. Hüller & Co: Professional, Champion and World, with the extensions Super and 'De Luxe' and an incidental Standard, Ideal....

The typical Emo trumpet can be recognized by it's orbicular waterkeys, the baluster style bracing and the sloping valve caps and "Selmer' style arched valve stem buttons.

The Word models also have these 'Olds' style valve casings and bottoms.

But on a closer look there is more variation, partly because for the early instruments standard parts were used.

Emo Professional

The first few Professional trumpets have the octagonal valve caps and bottoms that are also found on Keilwerth and Wohlrab trumpets. After that they have round caps and bottoms. Then the typical baluster braces also pop up. The waterkey is a traditional one, and stays the same over the years. After finding it's form in the early years the Professional model hasn't changed.

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Emo Professional, octagonal valve caps, traditional braces, valve numbers 1,2,3

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Emo Professional, octagonal valve caps, serial number 4(?) ,valve numbers 1,2,3, traditional braces

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Emo Professional serial number 2, round valve caps

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Emo Professional Bb and C, serial number not known, spin with typical baluster

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Emo Professional Bb and C, serial number 46

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Emo Professional, serial number 4933, baluster and traditional brace

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Emo Professional serial number 8103

Emo Champion

The Emo Champion trumpets all have normal waterkeys, no 'Emo' keys. Between 454 and 747 they get underslung waterkeys, then again normal waterkeys. Somewhere between 2506 and 2676 the valve buttons change from 'Emo' style to 'normal'. The bracings vary but the brace in the main tuning slide mostly is 'Emo'.

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Emo Champion, serial number 18

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Emo Champion, serial number 32, different engraving on bell

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Emo Champion, serial number 509, underslung waterkey, braces in different styles, hexagonal valve buttons

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Emo Champion, serial number 2676, different engraving on bell, underslung waterkey

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Emo Champion, serial number 5681, underslung waterkey

Emo Champion Super

The Emo Champion Super all have the typical 'Emo' waterkeys and valve buttons. There's a little variation in the finger hoooks.

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Emo Champion Super, serial number 632, different finger hook, 'Emo' waterkeys and valve buttons

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Emo Champion Super, serial number 8125, 'Emo' waterkeys and valve buttons

Emo World

The Emo World trumpets have a pretty constant shape, with all the known Emo features, including the 'Olds' style valve casings.

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Emo World de Luxe, serial number 1933

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Emo World de Luxe, serial number 7688

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Emo World de Luxe, serial number 12750, Bauerfeind valve block. The only Emo with a 5-digit serial number.

Emo World de Luxe

Emo World de Luxe have all the typical Emo features. From a certain point they also have a patented third valve slide hook. This patent from Modl dates from July 18th 1956.

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Emo World de Luxe, serial number 1433

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Emo World de Luxe, serial number 3865, and the third valve slide hook