Olds Club

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Thread for ongoing discussions / photos, etc regarding vintage Olds trumpets.

[Dr GO]

OK. My signature line says it all.

[Mike Ansberry]

fMy 2 GO go to horns.

[dizzyizzy]

Thought I'd throw a line as to my collection out there...

Olds A6-ST (1979) Fullerton / one of the "last" of the few "Ambassadors" made for the European Cornet market (Not to be confused with the "other" Ambassador line, (they should have used a different name as the two instruments are nothing alike). These are supposedly "rare as hen's teeth".
Olds Ambassador (1961) Fullerton / my first student horn
Olds Mendez (1960) Fullerton /
Olds Opera (1966) /
Olds Recording (1969) Fullerton /
Olds Super Recording (1947) Los Angeles /
"The Olds" (1930) Los Angeles / Pre-War - created "before" Olds used "model" names...so its simply "The Olds".

Among 27 vintage horns in my herd...which I need to thin out, as I'm just too old nowadays.

[Perry D]

I love Olds trumpets. I've had LA Ambassadors, a Fullerton & LA Recording and my current is a 1948 Old Super. Probably blasphemy among Olds historians...but I had the Super silver plated a couple weeks ago. It was a great survivor horn with excellent valves and no signs of previous trauma. I love the gold wash bell that extends to the tone ring.

[barliman2001]

For the last few years, my main axe has been a Recording...
combined here with a Swiss Brand Turbo mouthpiece in 1 1/2 C size

[Dr GO]

@barliman2001 said in Olds Club:

For the last few years, my main axe has been a Recording...!

A great axe to handle. So versatile and always with an amazing tone.... that crosses both jazz and classical genres. Not sure how this horn does it, but it does.

[Dale Proctor]

I have a couple…a 1969 L-12 flugelhorn with a GR/Melk leadpipe and a 1977 A-11E Eb/D trumpet.

[Richard III]

@Dale-Proctor Sometime ago I was helping clean out my brother-in-law's storage unit. There I see an Olds Ambassador cornet in a case. It belonged to my nephew when he was in middle school or something like that. I took it home and had it cleaned and straightened. For the last few months it has been sitting by my side in my practice room. It does everything I could ask a horn to do and it does all that easier than all my other horns. It sort of feels like I don't need the twenty something trumpets and cornets I have sitting around. Who knew a little cornet like that would be that great.