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#Olds ambassador cornet stopped up archive#

I had alot of happy customers on limited budgets who bought those. They did have the attributes which Stephen and others mention, when they came in.but most of those should be addressed by a tech during a servicing.and once they are and the horn is put into good regulation.again, IMHO, on a market shelf which may include horns such as Bundy and Armstrong.the Ambassadors weren't bad. That said, after the holidays I will endeavour to reach out once more and follow-up.įWIW.I have refurbed around 25 or so Parisian Ambassadors.they really are NOT bad horns (keep in mind here this is a horn with a market value of $300 for an Alto, $450-500 for a Tenor, in good playing shape - so I think one has to keep it's appropriate slot in the market in mind, here). Seriously, the fact that I never heard back indicates that they never found anything-which he suggested would be the case, since he told me they purged their basement a number of years ago.

#Olds ambassador cornet stopped up archive#

Last I heard the man I corresponded with sent is EA down to the archive room to check. I had reached out to the people at Olds to see if they could find some stuff in their archives on the Olds Super saxophone. However, whereas the Hammerschmidt has 3 octave vents, the Olds only has the regular 2.ģ. Since I saw the Super the first time, I immediately noticed the similarity between the Hammerschmidt's and Olds' octave levers. It is possible that someone sent him PDFs with only the brass stuff in it, and given the Olds Super sax was only made for a couple of years, we're not dealing with a large window where we can find them in print.Ģ.

People sometimes send me catalogue collections, but only send me what they think I'd be interested in-leaving out the brass pages for example. I don't know if he has the actual hard copies, or if only has PDFs. I have reached out to the owner of the website who has all the Olds catalogues, to see if he could find any Olds Super saxophones in his stuff. Anyone?Ī couple thoughts about the Olds Super since it being discussed here.ġ. I'm trying to find any photos or info on the Olds Recording sax. Will we ever have a final answer as to where the Super was made? Yes, Olds may have employed former Martin employees in its design and creation, but this is not a fancied-up Martin Committee II like so many people seem to want to believe." This speaks to the fact that this horn was not made by Martin. While he was cleaning the keys, he noted he could see hammer strikes on the keys, and the hand-buffing marks on them.

"David-who BTW is Swiss, and trained as a woodwind instrument maker before moving to Canada in the late 80s-noted that this entire instrument is handmade.

I did note that on site, she said of her Super: In that case the Super may have come from another source, or have been made by Olds themselves, and had the same thumb rest added when they came to think about that area of their weird new sax. Follow that through and you may conclude that if the Studio was a Martin then, with an identical thumb rest, so was the Super.īut of course Olds may have got the Imperials, in parts, from Martin and added the thumb rest as an embellishment as they did with the ring in the Studio's bell brace, and the extra rollers in its pinky keys. IF the Studio is a Martin Stencil then we next look at the octave thumb rest in my post above and see the Studio's is the same as the Super's. View attachment 16524 View attachment 16525 ) I commented that the Olds Studio looks to me like a Martin Imperial due partly to the l/h pinkie key shown again under.

Now, on the SOTW thread ( Here's something interesting for some of you (Olds). I know you, and others, have wondered about the origin of the Olds Super and whereas it seems to me from research that Martin and Buescher were variously used by Olds to manufacture some of their other saxophones I had a thought relating to the thumb rest photos above.