Elkhart Band Instrument Company


Elkhart Band Instrument Company was a musical instrument manufacturer in Elkhart, Indiana.

History

The company was founded in 1923 by Andrew Hubble Beardsley, who was the president of Buescher Band Instrument Company, and Carl Dimond Greenleaf, president of C.G. Conn, and who served the new company as secretary-treasurer. The company produced "Elkhart" branded band instruments as well instruments to be sold under merchandisers' brands. Instruments produced by the company had an irregular assortment of features borrowed from the products of Conn and Buescher, partners in the consortium.
In 1927 the company merged with Buescher. When Beardsley died in 1936, the company was dissolved and Buescher used the Elkhart trademark for student line instruments until 1959.