Trent Hamilton did a nice review of the King 7b, the little brother of the King 8b I featured earlier. Enjoy!
Category: Bass
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…
Schilke 60
This weeks Monday Mouthpiece is a two-for! This was my primary mouthpiece through the 80s. I had a bad reaction to the silver so I had one gold plated. A deep bowl with a thin and very sharp rim. This mouth piece did nothing to lock in tuning. On the other hand, it was really…
King 8B
This may be my favorite of all my horns. While the King 8B was not my first trombone, it was the first one that I bought for myself. (That’s not actually true: the first trombone I bought for myself was my Olds ‘Super’. More about that in another post). I played in the Ceremonial Guard…