Customized Olds Recording Model

J. Jericho

Someone went to no small expense for this one. Here's the eBay listing: https://www.ebay.com/itm/404376116253?mkevt=1&mkpid=0&emsid=e11021.m43.l1120&mkcid=7&ch=osgood&euid=453f16d23d91450da2244f62c1e2cf80&bu=42999274517&ut=RU&exe=0&ext=0&osub=-1~1&crd=20230712043335&segname=11021

GeorgeB

@j-jericho

It's identical to my 1940 Recording.

George

J. Jericho

Complete with tuning slide plunger/adjuster?

GeorgeB

@j-jericho said in Customized Olds Recording Model:

Complete with tuning slide plunger/adjuster?

No, mine doesn't have that extra item.
George

veery

The added pushrod ruins it. Not needed.

J. Jericho

It looks like a solution to a problem that needed to be addressed by the techniques and skills of the player, not by adding a questionable, possibly detrimental, and undoubtedly expensive appendage to a trumpet that plays superbly without such modification.

barliman2001

@j-jericho Might be that the perpetrator wanted to mess around with microtonals...

Trumpetb

Correct me if I am wrong but the Recording has a single slide and brace on the main, this one looks like it has a specially fabricated removeable extra slide inserted into the main slide.

This pushrod looks like it allows the player to extend the main slide under thumb control of the right hand.

If this is set up like a trigger with an internal spring, and that looks possible, then the player suddenly has trigger control available on first and on third.

Additionally this trigger would be useable when the left hand is occupied by a mute.

The plunger now becomes more user friendly.

It looks to me like a classy addition to a classy instrument.

Just my 2 cents.

Mike Ansberry0

At NTSU (that would be UNT for you youngsters) they had some trumpets in the school's equipment that had a tuning trigger on the tuning slide. There was a name for this mechanism, but I don't remember it. I don't remember exactly how it was set up, but I am pretty sure it wasn't with a push rod. But I think it is a good idea for someone with an extremely good sense of pitch. It would enable you to adjust pitch on any note no matter what valves were pushed down.

ROWUK

@mike-ansberry-0 Pitchfinder

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@rowuk said in Customized Olds Recording Model:

@mike-ansberry-0 Pitchfinder

I had a trumpet teacher with a pitch finder on his Bach C. This device could adjust both the 3rd valve slide and the main tuning slide and it could pull in as well as push out. It was a complicated mechanism.

Jolter

@j-jericho said in Customized Olds Recording Model:

It looks like a solution to a problem that needed to be addressed by the techniques and skills of the player, not by adding a questionable, possibly detrimental, and undoubtedly expensive appendage to a trumpet that plays superbly without such modification.

It’s been relisted a dozen times since this thread was posted so apparently most prospective buyers are scared off by either the modification or the $2000 price.

J. Jericho

I stand corrected. Here's the explanation:

barliman2001

@Mike-Ansberry-0 Some rotaries have tuning slide triggers.

flugelgirl

My Adams cornet has a trigger for the main tuning - super helpful with a above the staff on that horn.

J. Jericho

The Olds Recording cornet has a tuning slide trigger, too.

Dr GO

The BEST trigger option is no trigger: My Martin Committee has the slide eliminated as it is not needed as intonation is pitch perfect without it.

Then next easiest feature is then the Olds trigger slide concept. So easy to use, and so ergonomically friendly.