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Rimless bell?
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2013 11:08 am
by imperialbari
http://www.ebay.de/itm/160955797671
Is this a shortcut (literarily so) repair, or is it a design that wasn’t repeated?
Klaus
Re: Rimless bell?
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2013 11:27 am
by bort
Wow, a 12-15 dB increase? Just what the world needs, a trombone that is more than twice as loud.
Re: Rimless bell?
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2013 1:21 pm
by T. J. Ricer
The bells on those are very thick to make up for the lack of rim. The problem that likely led to their eventual downfall is that the bell had a tendency to audibly ring if you hit just the right note/volume. Otherwise, they're pretty sweet vintage trombones.
T. J.
Re: Rimless bell?
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2013 4:23 pm
by pjv
Agreed. I used to own one. Lovely trombones to play on.
Looks like this ones been cut to A=440hz. There should be 3 braces like on almost all trombones; one by the bell lock, one one the tuning slide plus one bracing the entrance areas of the tuning slide. Its this last one thats missing.
-P