Hawkes & Son.. (The Official KSB Hawkes Bass Discussion Thread)

[Matthew Tucker]

This label is interesting.



I think it is what's left of a music shop's address at Cashmere Gate - in New Delhi!

Cashmere Gate was right near a major train station, and is now the name of a metro stop.

Boosey and Hawkes would obviously have had outlets in India following the war, and in fact Besson (acquired by B&H) had a bugle factory in Delhi. So instruments would have been bought and sold through into asia from here as well.

So it seems to me this bass has travelled quite a bit :-)