While this isn’t the first horn I played (that was an Olds Super like this one), it is the first horn I owned. My folks got it for me when I started high school. The Yamaha 648 was a copy of the venerable Conn 88h and one of their early forays into professional level trombones…
Month: November 2016
Another Mouthpiece Monday!
I know everyone missed MpM last week, so we’re back again this week with another mystery meat! There is some script engraved just under the rim, but I can’t make it out. Maybe you can? Another mouthpiece that had to be removed from a horn by force. More than once, by the look of it. This…
Boosey Imperial G
This weeks’ installment is a vintage Boosey & Hawkes Imperial G trombone! The serial number on this horn puts it’s manufacture around 1960. This is one of my prized possessions. It was given to me by the bandmaster of a Salvation Army band I used to play in. The craftmanship on these old Booseys is…
G Trombone
I’m not really sure that this is a G Trombone mouth piece, but it fits my G the best, so, there you go. This well used mouthpiece could be almost a hundred years old… or even older. It has a very wide rim, but it is insanely narrow on the edge. Many of the mouthpieces…
Olds Super
This is the first horn I ever bought. Not the first I owned though, that’s another story. In the summer of ’82 I played in the Band of the Ceremonial Guard on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. On a day off I was wandering through Byward Market and saw this little sweetie hanging in a pawnshop…
EESI-LYPE
This weeks mouthpiece is a tuba mouthpiece from the Salvation Army. It’s labeled THE SALVATION ARMY “EESI-LYPE” Reg.No544760 On the other side it says MADE IN ENGLAND E. MON. I think this silver plated mouthpiece sat in my dad’s workshop for years. I have no idea why my dad would have an old tuba mouthpiece:…
Boosey & Hawkes Imperial
This horn is kind of a mystery to me. I’m not actually sure where I got it from, but it may have been a rescue from an old Salvation Army Citadel that was closing in eastern Ontario back in the 90s. The Boosey & Hawkes Imperial is a medium (I’d say small, but I’m biased…