Here’s something you don’t see every day. I actually don’t think I’ve ever seen one on the used market. It’s a Schagerl Fontana large bore tenor trombone.

Schagerl produces fine handmade brass instruments in Austria. They have quite an illustrious artist roaster with Zoltan Kiss, James Morrison, Thomas Gansch and – of course – Argentinian trombone star Lito Fontana. The Fontana model was developed in a 2 year collaboration with Lito and has some quite unique features!

A gold brass bell with a yellow brass slide – nothing fancy so far. The slide crook is in gold brass, as is the valve section. As you can see in this particular exemplary, the bell section is unlacquered.

The valve wrap is really unique as are the ferrules and the bracing design. I also have never seen a tuning slide with this design where one of the tuning slide legs goes into a sort of guide. Works really nicely!

So if you want to sound like Lito – go practice! If you want to have the same horn as Lito, this is it!

Price: 2940$

2655 EUR

2705 CHF

Pictures: [url]https://swisstbone.com/schagerl-fontana-tenor-trombone/

Oh man, can you please stop tempting us with such awesome horns! First I saw your Thein bass and now this. Good job my horn budget is empty at the moment, window shopping only for now.

[quote="MrHCinDE"]Oh man, can you please stop tempting us with such awesome horns! First I saw your Thein bass and now this. Good job my horn budget is empty at the moment, window shopping only for now.[/quote]

Ok. I'll stop. Next will be a boring Shires Lone Star bass trombone :pant:

Very cool horn! That tuning slide has the same design as the “hidden reverse tuning slide” that Yamaha uses on some of their C trumpets. This is the first time I have seen it on a trombone. The logic behind the design is that it has the acoustical advantage (no expansion then reduction in bore) from the reverse construction, yet you can still install a brace or flange on the outside tubing. Again, very cool!

[quote="Crazy4Tbone86"]The logic behind the design is that it has the acoustical advantage (no expansion then reduction in bore) from the reverse construction, yet you can still install a brace or flange on the outside tubing.[/quote]

plus the slide can get 100% more stuck :mrgreen:

[quote="ithinknot"]<QUOTE author="Crazy4Tbone86" post_id="173929" time="1647603055" user_id="8392">
The logic behind the design is that it has the acoustical advantage (no expansion then reduction in bore) from the reverse construction, yet you can still install a brace or flange on the outside tubing.[/quote]

plus the slide can get 100% more stuck :mrgreen:
</QUOTE>

Oh, imagine if the owner gets a deep dent on the outside of one of those tuning slides……major challenges ahead! I hope the person who buys it takes excellent care of it.