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Hi-
Apparently, Greenhoe trombones is closing their doors. Sad news....

Mark

The site is still up - for now, anyway. On a whim, I checked the Frost website, which IS down. Hell of an idea, having a second valve that puts the horn in B Natural so that the low B is a pedal rather than stuffed through 2 valves. I hope someone else picks that up if Frost is Tango Uniform.

My big tenor is an Olds O-25. With a .555 bore through the slides and a .562 in the F attachment, it plays huge with no sacrifice in dexterity or range. It also has the smallest rotor I have ever seen on a trombone. It looks like a thumb rotor off a French horn on the outside but is larger than .562 in the ports. Because it is so small, it has a very short throw and is quick, quick. Wonder why no one else picked up on this design?

KiltieTuba wrote:

jonesmj wrote:Hi-
Apparently, Greenhoe trombones is closing their doors. Sad news....

Mark

When or how did you hear about this!?

It's all over the trombone forum, and on Gary Greenhoe's own facebook page...

Andrew

A friend of mine worked with Greenhoe. He's let it be known that he's looking for a job. Greenhoe is definitely gone.

At Christmas, too. Very sad for the company and the employees.

That is very understandable - no one can go on working forever. I expect to be retiring someday, too, but not soon.

Concerning the upper-line trombone market, someone else will emerge to fill the void if there is sufficient demand for that kind of product.

Shires is certainly among them-

Close, LJV. Conn-Selmer was buying completed bell sections from him. Gary was very particular about his team assembling the valve sections onto the bells. Gary's stuff was top notch, and I'm hoping someone will pick up where he left off. I love Shires instruments as well, but there's a lot of difference between Shires and Greenhoe, and I think there is a place in the market for both of them.

All good, just wanted to share that information. Hope you are well.