[Trombone-l] Your first trombone?

[Philip Brink]

I haven't seen anything like my first horn, a "stencil horn" from the local
music house... which went out of business. Considering the quality of the
horn I had, I'm not that surprised. Apparently there are companies which
make "blank" horns which the store then puts their name or brand on [hence
stencil horn!] Got me started, at least; after that I got a good horn, a
Conn 10H, which lasted me into college. The first horn still worked for me
from age 10 to 18.

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 3:29 PM, Harlan Feinstein via Trombone-l <
trombone-l at trombonelist.org> wrote:

> >
> > Curious to hear how many of us on the list started on a really lousy
> > instrument, silver, with a green slide and a pitted mouthpiece, etc.
>
>
> Think I had an Olds Ambassador too, someone's backup instrument that I
> traded my backup trumpet for.  A different sort of startup on an
> instrument, already having played other brass instruments professionally,
> but learned trombone in a trad jazz band, which is a pretty forgiving
> environment to cut one's teeth in.
>
> --Harlan
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-- 
Philip Brink
Instructor of Trombone, retired
College of Music, Mahidol University
Low Brass principal, Thailand Philharmonic, retired