Renold Schilke
trumpet player, instrument designer, manufacturer (1910–1982)
Renold Otto Schilke (June 30, 1910 – September 5, 1982) was an American professional orchestral trumpet player, instrument designer and manufacturer. He founded and ran Schilke Music Products Incorporated, a manufacturer of brass instruments and mouthpieces.
Youth
Renold Schilke was born June 30, 1910, in Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States. His father was Otto W. Schilke, a butcher and meat dealer, who was born in Germany about 1870–1871 and died in Green Bay, WI, on October 10, 1932. Renold's grandfather, Ernst Wilhelm Schilke, was born on November 20, 1846, in Niederzehren (now Czarne Dolne), Westpreussen (now Poland). The region of West Prussia, now part of Poland, where the Schilke family originated, is now generally called Pomerania. Renold began playing cornet at the age of eight. Before his teens, he was initiated into the life of a professional musician playing for the Frank Holton Company and also learning basics of instrument manufacture, as had cornet virtuoso and instrument manufacturer Ernst Couturier before him.
Studies and research
Schilke studied for a year at the Brussels Conservatory in Belgium before graduating from Green Bay's East High School at age 18. The 1930 census lists Renold in his father's household at 1254 Cherry Street, with occupation given as "musician." In the 1931 Green Bay city directory, he is at the same address, with designation "student." Schilke continued his studies at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University while playing professionally.
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