SteveRicks

Hey, you want to pick anything BUT Olds. Just joking. I've just started collecting them so imagine will will be running up the price way above its normal value bidding againsgt eachother. Oh well.

I really like Olds, learning on them as a kid during the 60s. Started on an Ambassador (student horn), moved to Special (step up horn), then to (1962) Super (pro horn). Of course I HAD to get a Bach Strad in HS and college, but eventually got beyond the name, realizing the Olds was superior.
Still have the Super-which my son is now using, so I bought a 1946 Super (in raw brass), 1953 Super (recently gold plated) and 1952 Recording (relacquered by the Zig himself) this past month. The 46 is the best horn I have EVER played, period. Others are also excellent, but 46 is tops.
Steve

Claude Gnocchi

I have 37 trumpets of various ilks....but, my latest all-time favorite "jazz" horn is a vintage Holton 48 in mint condition! AMAZING HORN!!!!!

A.N.A. Mendez

here is an Olds recording





A super Olds

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(Above) Alexanders ragtime band-circa 1960

"Baby, I'm already the coolest, and the hippist, now you want me to be on time too?" Buddy Love

"We appointed all our worst generals to command our armies, and our best generals to edit our newspapers." Robert E. Lee

ComeBackKid

Hey, A.N.A. Mendez - what is your secret for polishing? I would like my Supers and Specials to look that good.

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Come-Back Kid
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Selmer Invicta London (1956)
Olds Super (1951, 1963, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969)
Olds SuperStar (1971)
Olds Studio (1970)
Olds Special (1951, 1956, 1960, 1962)
Olds Ambassador (a few: 1953-1979)
Andreas Eastman (new)
(+Conn Director, King Cleveland, Holton Collegiate,
Blessing Accord, York, Yamaha, Getzen, Amati, Revelle, Bundy, Alcazar)

A.N.A. Mendez

Those are Charlie Melk restorations...

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(Above) Alexanders ragtime band-circa 1960

"Baby, I'm already the coolest, and the hippist, now you want me to be on time too?" Buddy Love

"We appointed all our worst generals to command our armies, and our best generals to edit our newspapers." Robert E. Lee

SteveRicks

I have 3 Supers and one Recording (in fantasitc shape). To me, the Recording has a darker sound than the Supers. Also, I feel I have to work harder on the Recording than the Supers -but that may just be because I played a Super for 40 years and my playing abilities have adapted to the horn (i.e., horn molded me). Sound on a Recording may be a little more dense, but the Super is plenty wide. Either is a good horn. Both are great lead horns.

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Steve
1946 Olds Super, LA
1953 Olds Super, LA (in gold)
1962 Olds Super, Fullerton
1952 Olds Recording, LA
1967 Bach Strad (37)
1970 Bach Strad (37)
1973 Olds Ambassador
2000 Kanstul Chicago
2008 Kanstul 1502