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What to do with a York tenor bone?
Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 3:41 pm
by TheHatTuba
I have an old (1930's) York tenor bone that is just lying in a corner. The slide is pretty much raw brass (maybe 5% of the plating left) and it does NOT play well in its present condition. Turning it into a bass trumpet sounds cool
http://www.wcwband.co.uk/basstrumpet.htm" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank but what other projects can you think of? It has a nice gold highlight engraving (which is the only reason i bought it in the first place).
Re: What to do with a York tenor bone?
Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 4:47 pm
by TheHatTuba
I had another idea, maybe i could make a bass/tenor valve trombone/bass trumpet/flugabone thing with the York valves from the little eb i took apart...
Re: What to do with a York tenor bone?
Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 5:31 pm
by bort
Do you not want to replate the slide?
Re: What to do with a York tenor bone?
Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 5:58 pm
by imperialbari
TheHatTuba wrote:I had another idea, maybe i could make a bass/tenor valve trombone/bass trumpet/flugabone thing with the York valves from the little eb i took apart...
What are the bores of valve block and the bell section gooseneck? Will there be a retrograde step-bore?
Finding a King 0.484" bore body for a valve trombone may lead to a useable instrument.
Klaus
Re: What to do with a York tenor bone?
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 4:51 pm
by JohnMCooper
Maybe a lamp or a fountain?
Re: What to do with a York tenor bone?
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 5:22 pm
by tclements
Lamp??
Re: What to do with a York tenor bone?
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 5:52 pm
by PMeuph
tclements wrote:Lamp??
If you scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page, you will notice that Doug Yeo has a lamp made from a trombone.
http://www.yeodoug.com/articles/trombon ... llery.html" target="_blank" target="_blank
FWIW, I made a lamp out of an old Boosey Euph. If fixing it is not an option then why not just use it as a decoration
Re: What to do with a York tenor bone?
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 5:52 pm
by sloan
Cut it to C?