Vintage Horn Eye Candy

[J. Jericho]

@Dr-GO said in Vintage Horn Eye Candy:

@J-Jericho said in Vintage Horn Eye Candy:

@grune said in Vintage Horn Eye Candy:

@Dr-GO said in Vintage Horn Eye Candy:

@Kehaulani said in Vintage Horn Eye Candy:

VINTAGE HORN EYE CANDY?

I don't see it.

IF you look real close, you should see a bugle.

I thought the purpose of the picture is to eye Candy. That is her name, right?

Eye?... don't know for sure.

Perhaps you're having a hard time visualizing.

[Dr GO]

@J-Jericho said in Vintage Horn Eye Candy:

@Dr-GO said in Vintage Horn Eye Candy:

@J-Jericho said in Vintage Horn Eye Candy:

@grune said in Vintage Horn Eye Candy:

@Dr-GO said in Vintage Horn Eye Candy:

@Kehaulani said in Vintage Horn Eye Candy:

VINTAGE HORN EYE CANDY?

I don't see it.

IF you look real close, you should see a bugle.

I thought the purpose of the picture is to eye Candy. That is her name, right?

Eye?... don't know for sure.

Perhaps you're having a hard time visualizing.

To what are you referring to by hard?

[Bob Pixley]

Here we go...

[J. Jericho]

@Dr-GO said in Vintage Horn Eye Candy:

@J-Jericho said in Vintage Horn Eye Candy:

@Dr-GO said in Vintage Horn Eye Candy:

@J-Jericho said in Vintage Horn Eye Candy:

@grune said in Vintage Horn Eye Candy:

@Dr-GO said in Vintage Horn Eye Candy:

@Kehaulani said in Vintage Horn Eye Candy:

VINTAGE HORN EYE CANDY?

I don't see it.

IF you look real close, you should see a bugle.

I thought the purpose of the picture is to eye Candy. That is her name, right?

Eye?... don't know for sure.

Perhaps you're having a hard time visualizing.

To what are you referring to by hard?

Double entendres are fun, aren't they?

[Bob Pixley]

How about this one - 1976 Olds Ambassador Eb/D trumpet. Pretty rare for a good reason...it isn’t a very good instrument...lol

[GeorgeB]

Thought I'd revive this older thread by introducing the latest addition to my Bb collection:

** 1942 Buescher True Tone 400 ML Bore Bb from Trent Austin's personal collection**

This horn, in lacquer with nickel trim, is in amazing condition for a 78 year old horn. The Art Deco design includes reverse 1st, 2nd and 3rd valves to the right side of the valve block. The lead pipe goes directly to the 3rd valve and really gives this baby a clean easy blow. The valves are scalloped at top and bottom. The horn has excellent compression and the valves are smooth and fast. With its vintage dark-honey lacquer look, it is a beauty to look at and after playing the first song on it ( Autumn Leaves ) my sweet warm tone never sounded better.
I now have 6 trumpets in my Bb collection. But they are not there just to look pretty. I play them all on a 3 day rotational basis, that is probably going to change a little for the Buescher. It will get an extra day because it is so damn much fun to play.

[Dale Proctor]

1968 Olds L-12 flugelhorn, restored by Southeastern Musical Services.

[Dr GO]

Man does Olds make beautiful horns!

[Mike Ansberry]

@Bob-Pixley said in Vintage Horn Eye Candy:

How about this one - 1976 Olds Ambassador Eb/D trumpet. Pretty rare for a good reason...it isn’t a very good instrument...lol

Are you interested in getting rid of it?

[Dale Proctor]

@Mike-Ansberry

I would for the right price. It also has a D slide, and actually plays better in D than in Eb.

I suppose I should own up to previously being known as Bob Pixley on this site...

[Mike Ansberry]

@Dale-Proctor You are the famous Bob Pixley! Wow, I am impressed.

[Dale Proctor]

@Mike-Ansberry said in Vintage Horn Eye Candy:

@Dale-Proctor You are the famous Bob Pixley! Wow, I am impressed.

No, I just used his name instead of my own on this site for a while.

[djeffers78]

Another acquisition
A 1905 Frank Holton New Proportions. I really love these cornets

[Dale Proctor]

[Dale Proctor]

1890 Besson cornet glamour shot.

[Lud14]

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[ConnDirectorFan]

I've always liked the layout of this early 1900s Conn Wonderphone, which inspired the design of several later models, including the 1960s 76A Connquest.
I also thought it interesting that 50 years later, across the Atlantic and behind the Iron Curtain, Amati-Kraslice would use that as the basis for one of their own cornet models [the B-1038, or 2551 when listed as Bohland & Fuchs...who copied a number of Western designs from the 1880s to 1930s], also modeling the pistons on the barrel-spring type Conn designed...

[Dale Proctor]

@conndirectorfan

That’s similar to a Conn 76A Connquest, but the air flows through the valve section in the opposite direction.

[Richard III]

I just had to dig out my Conn 77A. Sorry no picture. It is a standard configuration for a cornet. The 76A, which replaced the 77A is quite a different design. The tuning slide, I'm guessing, is on the bell tubing? Anybody know of any other Conn cornet with that feature?

[Dale Proctor]

@richard-iii said in Vintage Horn Eye Candy:

I just had to dig out my Conn 77A. Sorry no picture. It is a standard configuration for a cornet. The 76A, which replaced the 77A is quite a different design. The tuning slide, I'm guessing, is on the bell tubing? Anybody know of any other Conn cornet with that feature?

In that era, the 15A, 17A, 76A, 5A, and 9A all had a “reverse flow” design with a slide in that position, but I believe the 76A was the only one that used it as the main tuning slide. The others had a longer slide in the leadpipe for tuning. Here’s the 9A for comparison.

BTW, the 76A had a very similar wrap to the Olds Recording cornet.