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Hi,
I thought it might be fun to list what I have here in my study
16 usable instruments plus quite a few bits and pieces
Getzen 4047IB Bousfield 2014
Conn 88h 1969
88h 1959
88h 1967
8h 1967
8h bell only undatable but Elkhart 60's from the engraving matched to 88H Elkhart slide 1965, and a tuning slide from any of my other Conns
Conn 4H 1944
Conn 78H 1960
Kruspe Model Weschke (undatable but certainly between ww1 and ww2)
Lätzsch Modell Kuhn Weite 4
Glassl alto with valve and Kruspe style bell
Ewald Meinl sackbutt model Drewelwecz
Glassl alto sackbutt
Ewald Meinl Classical alto
Courtios 1920´s small bore silver
Courtois Super Swing 1950´s
Conn 2H bell no slide
Glassl tenor Kuhn copy not operational

Now list your mouthpieces Tim! 

Ok i'll play too:

Soprano
MAIN red
Alto
Lätzsch
Tenor
Greenhoe Custom TIS Red Brass Bell, Yellow Brass Valve Section(.547)
Yamaha YSL-640 (.525)
pBone green
Bass
Greenhoe Custom TIS Red Brass Bell, Yellow Brass Valve Section
Edwards B454
Bach 50B Single valve
Rath R9
Böhm & Meinl baroque bass trombone replica (in F) (disturbingly this has the word "Symphonic" engraved on the bell!!)
Contrabass
Thein Ben v Dijk model
Tuba
Yamaha YEB-632 (Eb)
Besson 983 Eb Front Action
Besson 982 Eb 3-1 Configuration
Miraphone 1291 5 valve CC

This seems fun,

Trumpet: King Silver Flair
Bugle: Getzen, and an older Scout model
Alto: Yamaha 671
Small Tenor: Yamaha 354
                      King Tempo
Large Tenor: 1968 Bach 42B, Gold brass bell, Edwards hand slide
                      Edwards T350E, Red brass bell, Bass hand slide
                      Yamaha 448G
Bass: Mack Brass branded TB 831
Tuba: 1912 York Eb (with beautiful blue/purple tarnish!!!)

Small bore tenors: Yamaha 354, Bach Soloist
Large bore tenors: Getzen 3047AF

still counting

Quote from: dj kennedy on Jan 20, 2015, 09:32PMstill countingDJ, do you count trombones instead of sheep when you can't sleep?

i  have  trombone  features in my dreams  !!!!!


Quote from: JohnL on Jan 20, 2015, 10:57PMDJ, do you count trombones instead of sheep when you can't sleep?

I have two Trombones and a Trumpet. Trombones include a Yamaha YSL-354 and an Elkhart Cavalier. The Trumpet is a very old East-European stencil horn.

Including "coming soon"...

- Markus Leuchter: Tenor Sackbut (Van der Heide)
- Markus Leuchter: Bass Sackbut (Van der Heide)
- Kurt Scherzer: Quartposaune (Schmidt TP3-1/2A, TBP5W)
- Hawkes & Son: The Cabaret (H.N. White 19)
- Kanstul: KSL-750 (Wick 9BS)
- Yamaha: YSL-350C (Wick 6BS)
- Yamaha: YSL-548G (Wick 5ABL)
- Holton: TR183 (Wick 1AL)

That makes 8 total. In time, I'd love to have classical tenor and bass trombones, a slide trumpet (the historical kind), and an ophicleide.

4
- Williams 8 (shipment pending)
- Yamaha 651
- Conn Connstellation
- Lyon and Healy, some kind of sackbut small trombone thing
- Possible Schmelzer 4 in my future (?)

two -- many

If you look at my Profile I have most of them listed.

Maestrohound, if you are serious about an Ophicleide, look at Wessex Tubas. They have one at a very reasonable price.  Rather than spending a small fortune on a 150 year old one.

Quote from: Tim Dowling on Jan 20, 2015, 03:00AMGetzen 4047IB Bousfield 2014
Conn 88h 1969
88h 1959
88h 1967
8h 1967

Hi Tim
It would be great if you could do a review of the Getzen, using the Conns as a reference point.
Dave

Lots of "vintage" out there! (Maybe just a bunch of old players) 

Me - Pretty basic:

Getzen 725 for 75% of all my playing instead of a straight .547 most of the time
Conn 6H (alto bone parts and jazz/dance band)
Friedman Holton TR 156 screw bell for blowing laser beams through the conductor to the back of the auditorium for those pieces requiring the cannon effect  .

Would like a bass bone and a straight .547, but got no dinero 

don't remember if I did this already , but.....
a trumpet player friend of ours brught it up, turns out trumpet players are hoarders too.


jupiter soprano
maestro chinese alto
olds super
p bone
king 606
king 3b
king symphony red brass
bach 42B
King 6B Duo gravis
an old "oxford" that's wall hanger material
parts and pieces of a 605 and a conn
that's just the bones.....

Been away from the Forum for quite a while.   Was doing some research and found this interesting. 

1.  Conn 24H Silverplated 1942 (main gig horn)
2.  Conn 24H Silverplated 1932 (back-up horn, needed it recently when I caught a cup mute to the slide--self inflicted)
3.  Conn 88H Silverplated 1955 w/Bach Taper removable leadpipe (main all other legit playing, all-around bad-ass horn)
4.  Conn 2H Silverplated 1917 (historic and for nostalgia, plays well, but stays in case)
5.  Conn 4H Artist with LW Slide 1953
6.  Couesnon Valve Bone Section coupled with a 1950s Conn Coprion Bell Section
7.  Conn Shepard's Crook Cornet 1963
8.  King 2B Liberty 1953 (Sweet sounding lead horn)
9.  Conn Mellophonium 1967 (Just had to have it.  Big Stan Kenton Fan.  Fun to play!)

Use a Todd Clontz Component Mouthpiece for most of the Conns
A Curry 5M and 6M for the King
Bach 5G & 2G for the 88H

That is all and most definitely enough.

I feel trombone-poor.  I only have 2.  Who knows what the future holds?   

King 3B Silver Sonic
Benge 175F

My list has changed substantially since I listed mine:

1. Bach 50b3 - 1982
2. Conn 88h - 1968
3. Conn 8ht w/SL2525 slide - 2003
4. Conn 79h silver plate - 1968
5. Conn 10h - 1954
6. Conn 6h bell only - 1957
7. Schiller (jinbao) alto

I really consider the 8h and the 88h as a single horn. If it were a modular horn, it would be. Also consider the 10h and 6h as a single bone with an optional bell. This is after a big consolodation. I realized that I didn't need or even play all the trombones I had. So I focused on getting stuff that I wanted and would play in each size I thought I would use at least a couple times a year.

I also have a 1965 3b, but don't count it because it's for sale, and I just feel it in my bones that someone is going to buy this thing soon. http://tromboneforum.org/index.php/topic,83211.0.html

TOO MANY.

Kanstul 1570CR (my only f-attachment tenor now, beat the Shires and Edwards I owned for the number one slot)
1960s Selmer Largo
1955-ish Martin Committee
1967 Olds Recording
1939 King Liberty (not 2B)

I don't even play in public. I think I'm starting to be a hoarder.

Just 3 basses:

Conn/Minick 62h (main horn)
Getzen 1062FD
King Duo Gravis 6B

Love 'em all.

Forgot one, 1912 Olds TIS tenor

I feel like a sissy compared to some of you guys. I have had as many as 4 bones, but am currently at 3.

King 2103 (3b) that I got about a year ago. I love this horn for playing lead in our local big band. I got a Warburton 7m mouthpiece for it and it really sings.

And I have an Edwards with all the pieces to build 2 complete horns. I have a .547 slide, a .525 slide, an 8" bell, an 81/2" bell, a valve section, straight neck pipe, and 2 tuning slides. I usually play it as a .525 horn with the 8" bell and valve.

And I have a Willson ,2704 non-compensating euphonium.

One of these days I want to get a small tuba and a small bore horn with a valve. And maybe a 2b. But money is a limiting factor. If I had tons if it, I would probably own 10 trombones, 2 or 3 euphs, a tuba, a bass trumpet, and 5 mountain bikes.

Bach 42BO T-Bone
Getzen 1052FD Bass T-Bone (I play this almost exclusively these days)
Yamaha 321S Euphonium  (Play @ Tuba Christmas)
St. Petersburg 209N CC Tuba (Play in American Legion Band, some traditional/dixieland style for pay occasionally)

(Others I have recently sold, 1982 King 3B, 1965 Conn 18H w/Cuprion Bell, 2006 Yamaha 830 Xeno Bass

Weril Gagliardi II Alto
Weltklang Alto
Rath R1
Conn 74H
Conn 88HTO
Holton TR181

Other instruments
Besson Sovereign Euphonium
Cerveny Eb Tuba

All trombones get played regularly except the Weltklang and the 74H.  The Weltklang slide is simply aweful and I have access to a friends 78H which I use instead of the 74H. The Euphonium and Tuba only come out on rare occasions, tuba mainly in the theatre bands and the Euph for the odd Planets or Bydlo

Ok, I'll play....
Olds Balanced action (1928)
Olds Special (1954)
Olds Ambassador (1954)
(I dont use these much but they are all nice for what they are)
1960 Conn Constellation with lots of repairs and a med heavy slide (I use this a lot, and it looks it )
Pan American frankenbone with a 500 bore slide (spare for the 48H)
Early 80's TR258 made to be convertable with a straight neckpipe, spare TR158 bell, and a 525 slide (actually two separate horns.)
A Bb/F/G/Eb modular  Franken-bass. Based on a Yamaha 612 bell converted to a screw bell and a very modified 72H slide I have been using since 1978....
This is my "main" bass In spite of its quirks it's a nice player. Has a single valve section - the original red brass soldered rim bell flare and a brass unsoldered rim 10.5" bell flare from a 50Bl bell. Parts exist for at least one complete horn, the time to build it does not right now...
YBL 613H bought as a spare, great slide, great valves, good deal.
Mack Brass Euphonium, cheap, but it paid for itself.
Mack Brass Tuba... the Chinese are catching up
Several large boxes of bundy trombone and trumpet parts, (Ugh) and a crushed Conn 20I baritone I scavenged for the valves... (yet another project....)

I own one - King 2280 Legend Soloist Euphonium.

Had to quit trombone due to right elbow injury.

Quote from: MaestroHound on Feb 05, 2015, 06:07PMIncluding "coming soon"...

- Kurt Scherzer: Quartposaune (Schmidt TP3-1/2A, TBP5W)


Hi Maestro.  Do you use your Scherzer as both tenor and bass, with the respective mouthpieces?  Does it work well in both roles?  (I have a Piering Bb/F from maybe around 1900.  After a couple of recommendations, I recently got a Schmidt TP 3¾, which I like, and I’m also trying to add a TBP5W, which would give me a similar setup.)

OK, acquired two more recently, so...

King 2B, 3B-F, 4B-F all from the 70s.
King 3B from the mid-50s.
Holton TR180
Olds Ambassador
Early HN White wall hanger converted into a floor lamp (ran the rod through the bell, so no damage to the horn)
Besson wall hanger, built in the 1860s according to a letter I have from Besson.

Things have changed since last I posted here.
Lt Bach 12G
Bach 12
Bach Lt16Mg
King 2B+ Silver Sonic
Mount Vernon 36
Bach 42 BO
Getzen Canadian Brass Straight Tenor (Silver Plated)
King 2B Valve trombone w/ 1953 Nickel Tempo Bell
Yamaha 321 Bass Trombone
Weril Alto Trombone
Pre - WWI King Euphonium
1928 Conn Eb Tuba
1958 Conn Bb Tuba
Selman Bass Trumpet
Elkart Eb Alto Flugel-horn
American Standard Eb Mellophone
Blue P-Bone
Still have my Flutes
and 6 different sized Conch Shells
one Shofar (Ram`s Horn)

Quote from: Dukesboneman on Jan 13, 2018, 01:31PMand 6 different sized Conch Shells
one Shofar (Ram`s Horn)

Where do you get the conch shells?

I live in Florida now (they`re every where) but I got all of mine in Rochester & Buffalo, NY at garage sales

My roster has changed in the past year as well:

- 88h w/std and 525 slide
- 79h
- Kanstul 1662i
- 48h
=========below are horns to sell
- 70h w/ f and Eb slides
- 1936 24h
- 10h
- 38h bell

As of this past Tuesday, I'm now at 3.

Bach 36BO
Yamaha 356G
King 606

Eventually I'll want to get a bass to mess around with as well as a straight horn for jazz/salsa stuff.

I have a few. Looking to buy a Euph next...

Glassl Alto
Bach TB200 (my first trombone, still use it for the occasional parade!)
Rath R3F w/Hagmann valve
Edwards T-396A. My daily driver.
Conn 73H Bass trombone with Red brass bell.

I also have a silver plated Reynolds small bore. Needs to be fixed up so it can be played again!

Quote from: gregs70 on Jan 13, 2018, 10:38AM
Besson wall hanger, built in the 1860s according to a letter I have from Besson.


That wall hanger might be desirable by players of period instruments if it can be restored to a decent playing condition. Not worth very much because of the large quantity of later French trombones that have the same design, but still, 1860 is earlier than what a lot of people have.

Shires Bass
Shires Large Tenor
Olds Recording

These are the ones that are immediately available.

Getzen 1062
Jin Bao Alto w/ upgraded leadpipe.
Bundy student trombone.

These are the ones that are at parents' house.

King 6B
Olds Studio

These are the ones that are currently at a tech.

Even with just the three of them here, they take up a surprising amount of space in the apartment.

I currently have the following:

King SS 2B
Elkhart 88H
Holton TR 180
Holton Custom inline 169

Schiller C Tuba

On the way:
M&W Dependent bass trombone, red brass bell, .562 bore playing slide.

Long time lurker, first time poster here...
My current collection includes:
Shires NY Axial
Bach 42BO
Bach 42B corporation era
Yamaha 682
Yamaha 321 Euphonium
Conn Director
Jin Bao Alto
Akai EVI
and... a late 50's silver-plated 2B that belongs to a friend that I hope to talk him into selling!

Many....

JPRath Alto (236?)

King 2B brass
King 2B Silversonic

Bach LT8G, 90s era
Bach 9 (6vii bell section), Mt Vernon era
Bach LT16M, corp era (i.e. standard gooseneck)
Bach LT16M Sterling Plus, 90s? (open gooseneck)

Edwards tenor with both .547 and .525/547 slides, open neckpipe and valve

Kuhnl + Hoyer BvL 480/488" Basic

Kuhnl + Hoyer BvL 480/488" BZ

'90's King 3B

Fender Basses and Galien Kruger MB 150 etc..

7 horns in my dinky little apartment:

• [li]M&W custom bass[/li][li]Olds P-24G[/li][li]Conn 88HCL[/li][li]Bach 42KLT[/li][li]King 3BF SS[/li][li]Olds Ambassador[/li][li]Yamaha YEP-621 euph[/li]

Bach LT42T
Bach 42AG
Conn 18H Director
Getzen 3062AF
King 2102SS
King 2103PLG
Yamaha YSL-697Z Black Phoenix

Most of these are not in my dinky little apartment, they are at my parents (the storage warehouse).  I only have the 42AG and little Conn 18H (bar gig) horn.

I last posted here probably a year or two ago. My collection has expanded. List from newest to oldest:

2017 Schiller American Heritage trombone (nickel plated)
1980s Blessing Marching Trombone (same as Olds O21)
1978 King 5B trombone
1950s Italian stencil Bb/F french horn
1950s Belgian stencil Eb mellophonium
1938-1942 H.N.White Trombonium
1934 Elkhart Cavalier trombone
1922 Conn New Wonder euphonium
1912 Buescher Eb helicon (trade in progress)
Early 1900's Henri Gautier Virtuoso trombone (slide only, bell cut apart)
Early 1900's Rampone & Cazzani valve trombone

Not too many (not enough in fact - I need to borrow instruments all the time ...)


My main instrument is an Egger tenor sackbut after Sebastian Hainlein of Nuremberg (1632).

I have an early 90s Bach LT42 with aftermarket Hagmann and a bronze slide crook.

I also have a gorgeous silver plated with gold trim Conn small bore from ca. 1913, which I really don't get to play often enough.

Newest member of the family is a Wessex Bb ophicleide after Gautrot.

Another instrument will be added in about 3 weeks - I will be building (with the help and guidance of a master instrument maker) my own slide trumpet, based on a 1442 trumpet by Marcian Guitbert of Limoges! Can't wait!

I no longer own any of the trombones I had when I last posted in this thread. Back then I had 3 trombones and 4 others. Now I have:

1963 Conn 72H with Yamaha 813 independent valve section
196x Conn 72H stock (bell section only)
Early '70s yellow King 3B (loopy engraving)
Selmer Largo (straight)

2008 Kanstul 975-2 compensating euphonium
1984 King 1130 flugabone
1969 Conn 16E mellophonium
1938 Conn 6D double horn
1968 Conn 8B trumpet
Selman 17001 C trumpet
Carol Brass CTR-2000H-YSS trumpet
Pre-WWI Couesnon flugelhorn
Bach CR310 cornet
Getzen 383 frumpet

6 coach horns

Yamaha SY77 FM synthesizer
Yamaha DX7 FM synthesizer
Yamaha Reface DX FM synthesizer
Dave Smith Mopho SE analog monosynth
Novation KS4 virtual analog polysynth
Novation X-Station 49 virtual analog polysynth
Korg Kross 61 synth workstation
Korg Monotron analog monosynth
Casio Casiotone MT-100 home synth

Squier Affinity P-Bass (needs work)
2 broken violins
Hulusi
Various hand percussion

I'm currently without an alto trombone or a tenor with a valve - looking to rectify that in the next few months, as well as upgrading my double horn.

Quote from: Driving Park on Jan 15, 2018, 04:18PM... as well as upgrading my double horn.

You mean increase it by 2 (to an 8D)?

I've had TAS (trombone acquiring syndrome) for quite awhile. I've been trying to pair down the herd but its tough. To many great horns out there!
Conn
6H
24h
32H
40H
44H
48H
Holton
67
69
tr100
tr156
Martin Urbie
King
2B
3B
5B
Olds
Studio early
Studio-late 60's
Recording LA brass outers
Recording- Fullerton w/nickle outers
S-20 Bass
Reynolds
Professional model 70
Comtempera 30-M
Argenta
Others
Bach 36B
Yamaha 645
Amati Alto
Blessing valve bone
Buescher 400 staggerwing
Selmer 23
Besson 8-10
Non Bones
Reynolds Sousaphone
King 1240 tuba
King 606 Baritone
York Euphonium
Cuesnon Altohorn
Conn 16 E Mellophonium
Trumpets
Conn 6-B
Olds Mendez
Cornets
Holton 25
Holton Super collegate
Conn Director w/Coprion Bell
York Flugalhorn
I'm probably forgetting a few. I've already thinned the herd a bit and should probably thin it more. But all these horns play great which makes it tough!

I hope nobody asks DJ Kennedy to make a list

Bones:
Bach 42T
50's Martin Committee
blue pbone

Other:
Bach TR300 trumpet
Pan American cornet
beater Conn bell front baritone (literally looks like it got ran over by a truck, but for $25 it makes a good practice horn)
old 2v (piston + rotary) g bugle
Vito clarinet
Squier jazz bass
cheap Casio keyboard

Wall hangers:
vintage Conn director trombone (needs major work and is practically unplayable, so it lives on my wall)
First Act trumpet (found in my middle school's band room closet demolished, wasn't work fixing for the school so BD gave it to me to put on my wall)

Horns I'm borrowing:
Yamaha 354 (school owned)
G baritone bugle (local drum corps)
G contra (^)
 

Used to have a Conn 50h that I used before I got my Bach, but ended up selling it to my cousin to upgrade from his jupiter student horn for high school band. I'd probably own a lot more horns with too many to count if I had the money to afford them. I'm looking to at least get a King 2/3b, new large bore tenor, bass trombone, nicer trumpet, euphonium, and tuba one day. I hope I'm not asking too much 

well heck, if we are including non-trombones, here's my list, in descending order of my ability to play them:
Bones:
Jin Bao 7B clone very modified as described here http://tromboneforum.org/index.php/topic,103379.0.html
King 8B/Bach 50 frankenbassone
bach 42G straight
bach 36 straight
various student bones in varying conditions

Other brass:
Holton Eb Monster 3v tuba 1917
Carl Fisher 4v baritone ~120yo
No-name cornet ~100yo
couple of student trumpets in varying conditions

I went through a didgeridoo "phase" 25 years or so ago:
Australian Eucalyptus Didgeridoo in Db
Big Heavy homemade aluminum Didg in B
couple of pvc didges in various keys

I am currently in the middle of a string "phase":
violin ~100yo for fiddling
viola ~80yo also for fiddling- tuned octave below normal violin
Cello of unknown age really fun to play
5/8 size Czech made upright Bass tuned in 5ths an octave below the cello
MK F0 style mandolin
home made cigar box mandolin
appalachian dulcimer
Gibson C-1 (classical) guitar
Japanese "lawsuit" hollow body electric guitar
peavy electric guitar
Fender acoustic guitar
banjo
2 accordions
yamaha electric piano

probably some others I've forgotten about plus a crate full of musical toys....

Quote from: BGuttman on Jan 15, 2018, 05:55PMI hope nobody asks DJ Kennedy to make a list

Well, if he'd make one, THAT would be interesting (apart from setting a new Guinness record).