Anyone can identify this trombone?
- frankgalante
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Its from Russ Morgan "Music in the Morgan Manner"
- haydenlance
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Umm. I'm a bit late to the party butttt. I believe it is a King Liberty 2-b
I just stuck it into Google image search, found the person (Tommy Dorsey) and looked up what instrument he played. It said King Liberty 2-B and it looks the exact same.
Hope This Helps!
I just stuck it into Google image search, found the person (Tommy Dorsey) and looked up what instrument he played. It said King Liberty 2-B and it looks the exact same.
Hope This Helps!
- BGuttman
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[quote="haydenlance"]Umm. I'm a bit late to the party butttt. I believe it is a King Liberty 2-b
I just stuck it into Google image search, found the person (Tommy Dorsey) and looked up what instrument he played. It said King Liberty 2-B and it looks the exact same.
Hope This Helps![/quote]
Couldn't be a King without the curved bell brace. There's not much to help identify among the other likely candidates: Conn, Bach, Martin, Reynolds, Olds, Holton, etc. Note that Yamaha was not providing trombones at this time, and most of the custom makers we are familiar with were not yet in business.
I found several other images of Morgan, none of which show him holding a King. One picture shows a trombone with a flared bell brace like a Conn 48H or Olds Recording. The cover photo for the Music in the Morgan Manner LP shows a King 2B, but Morgan is not holding it.
And that's not Tommy Dorsey.
I just stuck it into Google image search, found the person (Tommy Dorsey) and looked up what instrument he played. It said King Liberty 2-B and it looks the exact same.
Hope This Helps![/quote]
Couldn't be a King without the curved bell brace. There's not much to help identify among the other likely candidates: Conn, Bach, Martin, Reynolds, Olds, Holton, etc. Note that Yamaha was not providing trombones at this time, and most of the custom makers we are familiar with were not yet in business.
I found several other images of Morgan, none of which show him holding a King. One picture shows a trombone with a flared bell brace like a Conn 48H or Olds Recording. The cover photo for the Music in the Morgan Manner LP shows a King 2B, but Morgan is not holding it.
And that's not Tommy Dorsey.
- haydenlance
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Fair, Google only goes so far on things like this.
- octavposaune
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Looks like an Old Olds to me
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- JohnL
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[quote="octavposaune"]Looks like an Old Olds to me
Benn[/quote]
Could be. I've seen an Olds advertisement from the late 1950's featuring Russ Morgan holding what looks like an S-15 Super, and in the jacket photo for the album "Medleys in the Morgan Manner" (1962), the trombone he's holding is clearly a Super - but both of those are several years later than the image the OP is referencing. I'm pretty sure that image is from this short:
<YOUTUBE id="St9B-44FPaU" t="20">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St9B-44FPaU&t=20s</YOUTUBE>
which is dated 1937.
Here's a really good image:
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It's an undated, but it looks like maybe Bach engraving to me...
Benn[/quote]
Could be. I've seen an Olds advertisement from the late 1950's featuring Russ Morgan holding what looks like an S-15 Super, and in the jacket photo for the album "Medleys in the Morgan Manner" (1962), the trombone he's holding is clearly a Super - but both of those are several years later than the image the OP is referencing. I'm pretty sure that image is from this short:
<YOUTUBE id="St9B-44FPaU" t="20">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St9B-44FPaU&t=20s</YOUTUBE>
which is dated 1937.
Here's a really good image:
<LINK_TEXT text="https://resources.tidal.com/images/07a6 ... 40x640.jpg">https://resources.tidal.com/images/07a64226/7529/498e/9855/26cf16c2a3cf/640x640.jpg</LINK_TEXT>
It's an undated, but it looks like maybe Bach engraving to me...
- octavposaune
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That pic is definitely a Bach John! I thought the blurry image posted earlier looked a lot like a Bell tuning Olds Standard!
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- KingThings
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Looks like the Olds Super I played once.....1947. But its hard to tell......
- JohnL
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[quote="KingThings"]Looks like the Olds Super I played once.....1947. But its hard to tell......[/quote]
The image in the original post does not appear to have the characteristic Super flared/streamlined braces.
The image in the original post does not appear to have the characteristic Super flared/streamlined braces.
- kenkugler
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Saw this on Reverb, 1956 add with Russ Morgan for Olds.
<LINK_TEXT text="https://reverb.com/item/60409689-framed ... s-trombone">https://reverb.com/item/60409689-framed-original-1957-olds-band-instruments-promotional-ad-featuring-russ-morgan-olds-trombone</LINK_TEXT>
<LINK_TEXT text="https://reverb.com/item/60409689-framed ... s-trombone">https://reverb.com/item/60409689-framed-original-1957-olds-band-instruments-promotional-ad-featuring-russ-morgan-olds-trombone</LINK_TEXT>
- KingThings
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[quote="kenkugler"]Saw this on Reverb, 1956 add with Russ Morgan for Olds.
<LINK_TEXT text="https://reverb.com/item/60409689-framed ... s-trombone">https://reverb.com/item/60409689-framed-original-1957-olds-band-instruments-promotional-ad-featuring-russ-morgan-olds-trombone</LINK_TEXT>[/quote]
Kinda looks like an Old Recording??
<LINK_TEXT text="https://reverb.com/item/60409689-framed ... s-trombone">https://reverb.com/item/60409689-framed-original-1957-olds-band-instruments-promotional-ad-featuring-russ-morgan-olds-trombone</LINK_TEXT>[/quote]
Kinda looks like an Old Recording??