Shires XT Slide??

[Crazy4Tbone86]

As I was doing my weekly perusal of Ebay, I saw something that was very new and interesting to me. There was a listing for Shires large bore trombone with a .554 bore slide and leadpipes labeled with XT to fit the .554 bore. I am assuming that it has a bass crook. The description states that the trombone is about 12 years old.

I have never heard of this Shires .554 bore slide option before. Was it offered for a limited time? Is it only a special order item?

[Burgerbob]

Probably like the bonezilla slides, just a couple made for a short time.

[Matt K]

My understanding is the XT slides were essentially prototypes. Somethign to the effect that Steve was trying to make something that played like a traditional large bore but had the sound of the Chicago .562 setups they were trying to make at the time.

[Crazy4Tbone86]

Cool, thanks for the information so far. The nice thing is that Shires probably still has all of the machining, so the parts might be available.