[Trombone-l] Your first trombone?

[Jim Bermann]

A King 2-B from Nappe Music House,
Chicago. 

Jim

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> On Aug 22, 2017, at 6:42 PM, Philip Brink via Trombone-l <trombone-l at trombonelist.org> wrote:
> 
> 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
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