Now my Sterling silver spree gets it's official addition, by me finally making the total instalment for a very nice, not much played, Conn 62H prototype in Sterling silver. From what the previous owner knows, it was made for some promotional event around 2000-2002. It has some wear and marks on the bell and outer slide, and some marks on the valve paddle, but over all this trombone can't have been played very much.
It has Lindberg valves, a dual bore slide (probably 0.562-0.xxx), what seems to be gold brass in the tuning crooks and some valve tubings, maybe a rose brass or at least some copper rich alloy in the slide, and what seems to be a NiSi slide crook. I haven't found much info on the horn, so I really have no idea of the alloys used more than for the bell.
The bell is 25cm, or about 9.84 inch, without any engravings - which suits me fine, since I like the more modest "art deco" apperance. The previous owner sold it with a modified King 50 case, but I have an Accord flight case on order, coming in soon. It turned out that the lead pipe reciever wasn't Remington taper (it was my previous mouthpiece that had poor tolerances from production), and I recently changed from 1 1/2G to something closer to 1 1/4G, which suits me much better.
Here are the pics. My spontaneous reaction when I first played it, was to call this horn "Betsy". I know it's somewhat silly to name an instrument, but some have characteristics that make them individuals and personal, and this trombone has that. So "Betsy" it is:
A big Thank You! to Doug Bert from the Brass Exchange, who provided much assistance and help to my knowledge of this horn.
