Category:Reiffel & Husted

Chicago-based silversmiths. Manufactured, repaired and replated silver goods, including domestic silverware, industrial parts, and musical instruments (bugles, cornets and trumpets during World War I, and most notably, invented the slide saxophone).

• Vintage Orsi Catalogue (brochure), Orsi, circa 1960s, excerpt of it was on: Helen Kahlke (April 7, 2009). Vintage Orsi Catalogue. The Bassic Sax Blog (bassic-sax.info). "... a vintage Orsi catalogue. ... Unfortunately there is no date given in the catalogue, ... but the owner believes that it might be from the 1960s."
• Paul Cohen (July/August 1994). "Vintage Saxophones Revisited - The Royal Slide Saxophone". Saxophone Journal: 6-8. "ROYAL SLIDE SAXOPHONE - The firm that produced this unusual saxophone, Reiffel & Husted, began as a silversmith company in downtown chicago, c.1911. ... The World War I demand for military instruments, especially that of bugles, led Reiffel & Husted to the successful production first of bugles (c.1918) and then to cornets and trumpets in different keys, as well as trombones and other brass instruments. / In 1922 Carl Reiffel contacted Lyon and Healy, also based in Chicago about distributing his new invention, the slide saxophone. ..."

Reiffel & Husted 

American silversmith and musical instrument company
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Instance of	musical instrument manufacturing company silversmith
Location	United States of America
Headquarters location	Chicago
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