The business grew rapidly and, in 1924, the first Bach trumpets were manufactured. In 1918, while performing part time at the Rivoli Theater, Bach invested $300 for a foot operated lathe and an office at 11 East 14th Street to begin the business of producing mouthpieces. While on furloughs, Vincent went to New York City where he remolded old mouthpieces and made new ones in a back room of the Selmer Music Store. As head of the bugle school, Vincent found both mouthpieces and instruments to be of inferior quality.
His discovery was further sustained when, during the World War, Vincent served as sergeant and bandmaster of the 306th Army Field Artillery Band at Camp Union, Long Island. This was the beginning of Vincent's realization of a very real need for high quality mouthpieces. After the man ruined the mouthpiece, Vincent had great difficulty finding a suitable replacement. While on tour in Pittsburgh, Vincent was convinced by a repairman that he could improve the mouthpiece on Vincent's trumpet. By the following season, Vincent was first trumpet with the Metropolitan Opera House opera and ballet orchestras, performing in the American premier of Stravinsky's Petroushka and Firebird. A letter to the famous conductor Karl Muck got Vincent an audition and a resulting position with the Boston Symphony. World War I forced Vincent's move to New York City where he arrived with only $5.00 in his pocket.
Performing under the stage name Vincent Bach, he established musical success as he toured throughout Europe. Although Vincent also displayed a strong aptitude for science and graduated from the Maschinenbauschule with an engineering degree, he gave up a promising engineering career to pursue his first love and an uncertain future as a musician. Vincent Bach combined his unique talents as both a musician and an engineer to create brass instruments of unequaled tone quality - instruments which today remain the sound choice of artists worldwide.īorn Vincent Schrotenbach in Vienna in 1890, he initially received training on the violin, then switched to the trumpet when he heard its majestic sound.
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