How long has Bach made lightweight slides?

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BrianJohnston
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by BrianJohnston »

Has Bach made lightweight slides since the New York and or Mount Vernon era’s? Or did this start around the corporation era?
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octavposaune
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by octavposaune »

LT slides were absolutely made in the MV era. Serviced a couple years ago including an amazing sounding LT50 slide with a superb leadpipe which I think the owner kept after he sold the horn.

Not sure about the NY era but I have heard of NY small bores having LT slides but cant confirm they were original. I believe a member of chat who is s big collector has a 9" gold bell NY 50 with an LT slide, need to check.

Benn
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elmsandr
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by elmsandr »

Nickel lightweight slides exist in at least MV era. Going to NY, I know there are factory lightweight brass slides (essentially no oversleeves). I don’t know how early the nickel slides go.

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Andy
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RJMason
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by RJMason »

I have seen two? Nickel lightweight slides that seemed to be original to a NY era trombone. Serial # made sense but who knows?

if they were bought with original outers in the 40s then several years later someone went a little further up from BX to MtV to check out the latest in LT outer slide tech <EMOJI seq="1f602" tseq="1f602">😂</EMOJI>