Olds Recording Trumpet Nickel ~ PREOWNED

Recording Nickel

Up for sale is a rare Olds Recording Trumpet! This U.S. Navy engraved trumpet features a nickel plated bell flare and nickel leadpipe. this set up was rare for this model based on the navy. trumpet is in playing condition and is ready to play. No case included

As you can see, the plating is slowly wearing on the bell and the lacquer on the slides are slowly coming off as well. The slides move freely and the pistons are in great condition with little to no plating wear. This is a player!

The Story of Olds instruments really begins in 1908 in California, with a trombone and a trombonist. F. E. Olds had long been interested in trying to improve his favorite instrument. He felt the slide and the bell could be improved immeasurably. With that improvement would come greater flexibility and better response – a new richness and tonal quality. So, in his home workshop, he began the careful and tedious hand work that soon began turning out the finest trombones the world had ever seen – instruments that attracted world wide attention and established him as the superior trombone craftsman of his day. The growing Olds company specialized only in trombones until the founder’s son, R. B. Olds, joined his father. The younger Olds knew his father’s genius should not be restricted to a single instrument, so soon thereafter, valve instruments bearing the illustrious Olds signature began to appear in the hands of the most famous artists of the day. As these artists began returning from California playing their remarkably superior instruments, the name Olds began to spread. And with fame came growth. To the present day, the Olds company has continued pioneering and refining the entire range of band instruments, from which every player has benefited. Olds was first to draw its own slide tubing… first to use an exceptionally strong, light, two-piece patented brace… first to use nickel silver tubing for slides… first to use a fluted slide to reduce friction. Famous Olds firsts include free bracing, widely copied in Europe and America, and professional-type valve springing on student trumpets and cornets. Today, Olds instruments are produced in the most modern manufacturing and research facilities. Every instrument is subjected to the most minute quality control inspection – to make sure that each is fully responsive to every musical requirement and fully worthy of the Olds signature. Everyone remembers F. E. Olds as the Number 1 craftsman of quality band instruments in America. And now, after years of intense research and development, the exciting new Olds band instruments emerge engineered to meet today’s evermore challenging performance needs. These new Olds instruments possess superb playing ease as well as an extraordinary built-in sturdiness to withstand the most rugged use. Make the best better is the F. E. Olds tradition. That is why research is continuous – research that is constantly seeking better ways to make better instruments.

Circa 1965 Nickel plated bell nickel leadpipe first slide trigger offet pistons