| Quoting the seller: In the 1950s Olds was in Fullerton, California having moved from LA a few miles away. During this era Olds trumpets and trombones were really fine quality instruments and fine artists of the day used them and there was even a "studio series". The LA sound is what one hears on most of the soundtracks of movies made during that period.
Olds was being run at this time by Mr. Reynolds who had closed down his Ohio factory and had taken up the task of helping Olds to gain market share over Conn.
The studio musicians of the day used Conn 8Ds and Kruspes, both usually with modified leadpipes. It was probably Reynolds who decided to use the Geyer wrap on this "high end" horn, although I am not sure. The man who made the valves for Carl Geyer in Chicago was in LA and sold valves to the Olds company as well. He may have offered the valves to Olds and that may be how this Olds horn got the valves of a Geyer... they really were from the same shop! I think that Mr. Reynolds was trying to build a better horn than Conn, and this geyer/knopf wrap allowed him to build a big horn with a freer blowing feel.
The horn plays with a fine clear dark ringing tone. It is a fine horn made to compete with the big Nickel horns of the day, yet using the Geyer wrap. It was just too costly a horn to break into a field dominated by Conn...especially as this is during the time when Conns were becoming the most used professional horn in the US.
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