I've got several slides with significant plating loss on the stockings (including my daily driver) and they work just fine. You might be surprised just how well the slide works after that. A good slide job will include a chem or ultrasonic cleaning along with straightening and aligning the tubes. Since the OP describes the slide as "ribbed", it sounds to me like it's the original style, so that pretty much puts it in that narrow 1935-1936 window.Īs for the scratchy slide? Lack of plating is a contributor, but you may well have some mineral deposits inside the outer slide. What I can say with certainty is that the original fluted slide patent was granted on Novem(the application was submitted on April 11, 1935) and the patent for duo-octagonal inner was submitted on September 1, 1936. Man, if piecing together information from less than a hundred years ago is this hard, I hate to think what archeologists and paleontologists go through.
There's no manufacturing records, so some people have put a lot of effort into reconstructing a table, but there are inconsistencies.
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serial number correlation for that era is an estimate. A couple pics of the entire horn would be nice.Īny date vs. I'd need to know where the tuning slide is. The OP doesn't give enough information for me to offer an opinion as to which model this is. Consider that they started building trombones sometime around 1913 and were at serial number 9000 sometime around 1936. It was a small, family-owned and -run shop back then.
The build quality of Olds instruments from the pre-WWII period is very high. I think that's because M's and LM's were built in large runs (well, large for Olds) while the others were built in small runs or maybe even on an individual basis. Less common sizes tend to have matching serial numbers. Mismatched serials are pretty much normal for M (medium) and LM (Large Medium) Olds trombones from that era. As Bruce mentioned, "M7" indicated Medium Bore, 7" bell. I attached a picture, thanks for any info you might be able to provide. I'm thinking it's the worn plating, and wondering if it is worth the investment having it replated, or if such money would be better spent on a different trombone. The slide was really scratchy, but I put some silicone lubricant on it, and now the slide moves much better. There are some spots where the plating is worn off at the end of both of the slide tubes. If this trombone is really worth it, I'll bring it along too and spend some money having it fixed up. I'll be in KC, MO in a few weeks, and plan to bring my tuba up to the horn doctor. My understanding is that if it was re-lacquered, then the engraving ("The olds", los angeles, etc.) would be gone or significantly diminished. I'm having a hard time believing that this horn is from 1935. Perhaps someone can confirm whether it was supposed to have one and is missing, or just wasn't included in the first place. Never saw that before.Īlso, I expected to see some sort of counterweight on the back end. The slide itself is pretty neat, it's ribbed. In both cases, there's nothing that indicates anything missing or broken, just the design. The slide fits into the bell receiver like a mouthpiece just a tapered fitting. It's the first trombone I've seen where nothing locks together. Maybe that's the model, or at least the size? 7 medium? Next to the serial number, where the slide fits into the bell it also says "7M". The slide has a slightly higher serial number of "M9127", still putting it in 1935, so it's probably a matched set. The serial number is 8899, which is awesomely easy to remember, and the following site dates it as being made in 1935: It specifically says "The Olds", so perhaps it was their flagship? I saw another "The Olds" on ebay, but that one said "Standard" under "The Olds", and mine doesn't. Curious as to where it fits in on the quality scale, and what other trombones it would be comparable to. I've been trying to find out some info about this thing. Apparently Olds made some great trombones. But the part about "Los Angeles" had me intrigued, so I wised up a bit and went on the googles. You'll have to excuse me, I'm a tuba player, and I've never played an Olds that was anything but total junk. It looked like new, and they weren't asking much, so I figured it was probably a cheap horn. I was in a thrift store and saw this lonely t-bone in the corner. Yeah, I just woke up and said hey, I'm a gonna buy a trombone today.Īctually, I've been thinking about buying a trombone for quite a while.
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