| Larry, really interested in your statement about the Opera:
"The only real dog of the Olds line was the " Opera " model, which even Zig Kanstul admits too ( he doesn't like the Clark Terry flugel either ). Everyone else is a keeper".
Please, expand on it a little. I've had an Opera cornet since I was 17, bought it new. I sold a Recording trumpet to buy it, never should have done it. It's not a knock on the Opera, I just can fill the large bore anymore.
And wasn't the CT Flug just a rebadged L-12?
Wish someone would write a History of the F.E.Olds Company!
__________________ Bill
Olds Ambassador, Special, Super, Recording, Mendez Bb trumpets, Custom C trumpet/GR Butcher 65.6M
Olds Opera & Ambassador A6 Shepherds Crook cornets/Sparx 4B
Olds L-12 Flugelhorn/GR Butcher 65.6FL
Schilke MII Trumpet/GR Butcher 65.6M
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