[Trombone-l] Ashley Alexander (now TR-181 gone)

[David OLIVER]

Now that's interesting! I just hit the Woodwind and the Brasswind
website. They had been carrying the TR-181 constantly since I
returned to playing again a bit over 9 years ago. When I took the
bass trombone plunge my first one was my 1980's TR-181, which I
still have. I've pretty gone to my '70 Conn 73H (modified by Eric
Edwards for Gb tuning - like the TR-181) full time but don't plan on
selling my TR-181 anytime soon. It seems to play better than the
more recent ones did. People have commented to me that the
rose brass looks to be a different shade for one thing.

Anyway, the TR-181 is gone from the WW & BW site. Only two
Holton models are left, the TR-183 single valve bass, and the
TR602F medium bore F-attach. That is it. It looks like the Holton
trombone line is dying a slow death with all the lines being one big
company now. It's essentially Conn-Selmer vs. Yamaha with Jupiter
nipping at their heels and Chinese brands below that.
It is sort like when baseball or football players retire isn't it? It's all
very quiet. One day they are just gone.

We saw the same thing happen when the King line became the
small bore UMI line at the expense of the Conn small bore models.
Conn's line became the symphonic/large bore line. GM did the same
thing with the different car models, aiming them at a different
consumer.


David Oliver
Broomfield, Colorado  USA



>From: "Joe Norcross" <joetuba at lightspeed.net>
>Reply-To: joetuba at lightspeed.net
>To: "Adrian Drover" <slide at adios.co.uk>, "George Carr" 
><georgecarr at gmail.com>
>CC: Mike Irwin <theimpalakid at gmail.com>, trombone-l at server5.samford.edu
>Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Ashley Alexander question
>Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 12:45:54 -0700
>
>Just checked the Holton web sight, the superbone is there, but the 181
>double rotor bass is not. better keep ours
>
>Joe Norcross
>Tuba COS Sequoia Winds, Visalia CA
>Tuba-Announcer Kingsburg City Band
>joetuba at lightspeed.net
>
>
>
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Adrian Drover <slide at adios.co.uk>
> > To: George Carr <georgecarr at gmail.com>
> > Cc: Mike Irwin <theimpalakid at gmail.com>; 
><trombone-l at server5.samford.edu>
> > Date: 8/11/2006 1:30:38 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Ashley Alexander question
> >
> >
> >
> > > From: George Carr [mailto:georgecarr at gmail.com]
> > >
> > > > Is it not easier to play the valves on the left and slide on the
>right a
> > > > la the Holton Superbone?
> > >
> > > Perhaps others can chime in on this, but I heard that he was
> > > originally left-handed, a la Slide Hampton, so that he preferred "his"
> > > model of horn over the Superbone.
> >
> >
> > Come to think of it, is the superbone reversible?  I think it probably 
>is.
> > Who has one?  Do they still make it?
> >
> > A.
> >
> >
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