[Trombone-l] Finally!

[Fred Hudson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Shoshani" <mshoshani at sbcglobal.net>


> On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 23:46 -0600, Earl Needham wrote:
>> Earl Needham wrote:
>> <snip>
>> >         2B
>> >        King
>> >      Liberty
>> >       Model
>> >
>> >      Made by
>> >        The
>> >   H.N. White Co.
>> >
>> >     Cleveland
>> >       Ohio
>>
>> Oh, and you ought to see the counterweight --
>>
>>        H.N. WHITE CO.
>>           PAT'D
>>             6
>
>
> So this means two things:
>
> First, you actually have a Liberty, not a Liberty 2-B. They were two
> different horns: the Liberty had a straight .485 bore and is
> identifiable by its slide crook being attached to the outer stockings
> (which are brass) with ferrules.  The Liberty 2-B was/is a .481/.491
> dual bore and is identifiable by its slide crook being lapped over the
> ends of the outer stockings (which are nickel silver).
>

I beg to differ Michael - My 1949 2-B of which I am the original owner is 
marked the same way as Earl's except that it just says Liberty, the word 
"Model" and it is definitely a dual bore. It is my understanding that the 
2-B designation, which Earl's horn has, was meant to designate dual bore. 
This was obviously not extrapolated to the 3-B, 4-B etc.*grin*

Fred H