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I've just traded in my Olds Studio for a Recording. When I got the Studio about four years ago, it was a true closet queen, still in the original cellophane wrapping... I liked it very much, being an unusually responsive horn; but when I happened upon a 1954 Recording, that one blew me away. The Studio now is with VOTRUBA in Vienna, to be seen here: https://www.votruba-musik.at/musikinstrumente/gebrauchte-instrumente/trompeten-fluegelhoerner
99.5% original lacquer, all valves like new, no dings or dents. Original case, original Olds #3 mouthpiece, original paperwork including factory check card.

Is this Adam Rapa's line of equipment?

Two trumpet players, in a nicely lit-up state, talking about their fears...
Player 1: "I've got that constant fear of death."
Player 2: "Don't we all; what's so special about yours?"
Player 1: "That my wife, after I'm gone, will sell all the trumpets for the price I told her I paid..."

@dale-proctor Niiiice... and don't worry about the lacquer... that's something Bach have never mastered...

@ssmith1226
A young electrician dies suddenly and ends up at the Pearly Gates before St. Peter. He is somewhat annoyed and vents his anger: "To die at 35 is no joke, you old Saint!" - "35? By the number of hours you had yourself paid for you're 98!"

@flugelgirl said in #AmandasBench:

It really is an exceptional little horn! It’s also tiny - about the size of an Eb cornet. Cutest tiny flugel ever!

Is it even remotely playable?

I lived out there once. Payette is a nice little town. I'm sure that great piece of history will get good use.

@bigdub Good on you to give away musical ability that way. A few months back, I donated three instruments and a heap of mouthpieces to a school in Bulgaria in a disadvantaged district... only last week, they sent me pics and videos of their founding a band at the school and their first performance at the End of School Year ceremony... with an official thank you document and an icon blessed by their local Orthodox priest... I can't tell you the joy I had from that. May you be similarly blessed.

I picked this horn up for $250. First time I've owned a 43*. Yes, it needs several hundred dollars worth of repairs, but still a good deal in my mind.