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

[thetubameister@adelphia.net]

I guess I'm a little bitter about WWBW.  Can anyone successfully, and with confidence, navigate their website?  It seams like they are showing me instruments and products they want me to see.

J.c.S.

---- David OLIVER <dcoliver at msn.com> wrote: 
> 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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