[Trombone-l] Old Conns

[Roger Carmichael]

You can always put a pair of caliphers inside the inner slides (lower end) and determine for sure which bore size you have.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Elliott Moxley <edm5970 at earthlink.net>
>Sent: Oct 1, 2006 10:28 PM
>To: Dave and Pam Sherman <dsherman772 at cox.net>, trombone-l at server5.samford.edu
>Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Old Conns
>
>I was told that my slide was a .522, and I have seen them in catalogs and
>model number lists that way.
>
>
>> [Original Message]
>> From: Dave and Pam Sherman <dsherman772 at cox.net>
>> To: <trombone-l at server5.samford.edu>
>> Date: 10/1/2006 6:58:29 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Old Conns
>>
>> The latest allied catalog lists the Artist Model 78H.  Inside slide .526 
>> X .554.  It also lists the outer slide tube.  Was the 78H made in two 
>> different bore sizes .525 and .522?
>>
>> Elliott Moxley wrote:
>> > Are you sure about Allied? I had a old 78H slide come apart from red
>rot.
>> > (I bought it WELL used, I might add). One of the better shops in the NY
>> > area could not get a lower slide tube. The repairman even showed me the
>> > Allied catalog.  Not listed-  
>> >
>> > This was about four years ago, BTW.   Maybe things have changed?  That
>.522
>> > is an odd size; most of the other horns in that general size are .525.
>> >
>> >
>> >   
>> >> [Original Message]
>> >> From: Dave and Pam Sherman <dsherman772 at cox.net>
>> >> To: <trombone-l at server5.samford.edu>
>> >> Date: 10/1/2006 1:00:51 PM
>> >> Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Old Conns
>> >>
>> >> Allied lists slide parts for the 78H.  You should be able to get your 
>> >> slide repaired.
>> >>
>> >> Dave Sherman
>> >>
>> >> thetubameister at adelphia.net wrote:
>> >>     
>> >>> It's nearly impossible to land those slide tubes.  In fact, the last
>> >>>       
>> > time I had a wasted 78H slide, I just ordered the B-78 slide from
>Blessing
>> > and replaced the leadpipe.  Best you can do, and affordable.
>> >   
>> >>> J.c.
>> >>>
>> >>> ---- Edwin Stoddard <estod at msn.com> wrote: 
>> >>>   
>> >>>       
>> >>>> Anybody got a decent (better yet, pristine, hardly ever played ...)
>> >>>>         
>> > Conn 78H 
>> >   
>> >>>> sitting around pining to be played?  My old ('54) hoss is running out
>> >>>>         
>> > of 
>> >   
>> >>>> original parts, and nobody seems to able to fix the slides.  I missed
>> >>>>         
>> > one on 
>> >   
>> >>>> Ebay, but then I am very leery of Ebay as a place to buy a horn.  I
>am 
>> >>>> making do with a 36B, but it's not the same.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Ed Stoddard
>> >>>> estod at msn.com
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
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