Located in Elkhart, Indiana, their products include trumpets, cornets, flugelhorns, mellophones, euphoniums, trombones, and mouthpieces for brass instruments.
[1] The company's founder was Emil Karl Blessing, Sr. (b Oppelsbohn, Württemberg 24 April 1880; d Elkhart 24 Sept 1954).
In 1906 Blessing returned to Elkhart and began making musical instruments in a small garage.
In 1940 it had incorporated, and in 1942 the name was changed to the less cumbersome E. K. Blessing Company, Inc. Emil was president of the company up to his death in 1954, and he was succeeded by his son E. Karl Blessing, Jr.[2] In 1961 Paul E. Richards merged Blessing with the Martin Band Instrument Company and F. A. Reynolds to form the "Roundtable of Music Craftsmen" (RMC).
Merle Johnson later sold the company to his son Randy Johnson, and in 2009, Randy sold E. K. Blessing Inc. to Verne Q. Powell Flutes, Inc.[2] In 2010, under the ownership of Verne Q. Powell Flutes Inc., E. K. Blessing has completely redesigned its student trumpets (BTR-1266, BTR-1277), created a new line of intermediate trumpets (BTR-1460) and introduced the first truly professional trumpet made by E. K. Blessing since the 1960s (BTR-1580).