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Originally Posted by MFfan  Welcome! Great looking horn. I think the 108xxx number is the serial which would take it to the 30's. I don't find a trumpet that looks like that on Horn-u-copia and haven't seen a York product with the 3rd valve on the right side other than the feather touch cornet. I imagine the York expert OLDLOU will comment. Definitely and 20's-30's type design. |
I have only seen two or three of these, back when I worked for A.J.'Bill' Johnson in his retail store. Bill claimed that they were an "artist grade" horn, built to compete with some of the Olds and Conn horns of that era. If you go to
Olds Central you will find the MIlitary Model that is of the same wrap. The Olds was made with a hand hammered bell that purportedly gave an even more brilliant tone. I currently own one of the Olds military Models and like it a lot, but, I am from the old school that wants a trumpet to have a brilliant tone, unlike the current trumpeters who want a trumpet to sound like a cornet. One of the signs of a York 'artist grade' horn is the mother of pearl inserts in the valve slide buttons. You have acquired a very fine old 'peashooter trumpet'. For your sake, I hope that the valve plating and resultant compression is still good. If it is, that old girl should be capable of burning the paint off of the wall behind the conductor, because of its superlative projection. It might not sound like much to the player, but, to the audience it will stick out from the modern trumpets in a section. I use my ancient Olds as a solo horn for playing in large church auditoriums. It, like your York is a superlative instrument.
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