Regretting selling a horn

[Poquelin]

Trombones I regret selling:
1. Conn Elkhart 73H
2. Courtois 400R with a Hagmann valve.

[Bach5G]

Not many I regret selling. A few I regret buying.

[dukesboneman]

My 1st Bach 12 Yellow Brass Bell, Standard weight slide.
This horn was really heavy, It weighed almost as much as my 42B
I had a Jerome Callett leadpipe in it and that baby sang.
Oh Well.........

[Leanit]

I have a strict policy of only owning horns that other people regret selling. It's most satisfying.

[biggiesmalls]

Horns I regret having sold:

-K&H Bart Van Lier .512 gold brass bell with ultralight nickel
silver slide. One of the best playing horns I ever
owned, but it was a straight horn without a usable seventh
position, which just didn't work for me. A real shame, because
the legs on the slide crook were absurdly long, and if that
extra ~2.25cm had been chopped off the crook legs and
added to the length of the inner and outer slide tubes,
seventh position would have been just fine. Go figure. Wish I'd
just ordered untrimmed inners and outers from K&H and had
a tech here in the States trim the crook legs and rebuild the
slide with longer tubes.

-Elkhart 88H C Series, picked out at the factory in 1963 from a
dozen or so examples by Marcellus and one of his students
(from whom I acquired the horn). Before the Pandemic, I
traded this horn for a near mint L Series that initially had its
own set of charms, but ultimately fell short of the C series
voodoo. But in a recent stroke of good fortune, I was able to
reacquire the C series horn in yet another trade, so now I'm
feeling all warm and fuzzy again. "All's well that ends well."

[RJMason]

The trombone Roy Lawler built for me (had some issues using it on a TV gig, show got cancelled a month after I sold it)
Inderbinen Trombone (needed the money during COVID)
Minick .500 (should’ve just gotten it worked on, mouthpiece change)
A really special Conn 6H (should’ve just had the bell heat treated after dent work, it became too work hardened and didn’t sound the same)

All are used by professional musicians across the world at very high levels so at least I am offered that consolation!

There’s a few more I wish I could’ve kept around, but I’m a working trombonist, not a stock broker, and if they aren’t exceptionally versatile or being regularly played, they won’t last very long in my stable.

Horns I regret buying:
Any custom build I did not get a chance to play test before purchase. Always been duds (except for Roy’s horn).

[Fidbone]

Horns I regret selling……..

Rath R1 #001 (Mark Nightingale had the prototype #000.)
Bach LT12G (Nils Landgren’s horn before he joined Yamaha.)
Inderbinen (Piccolo model) - Too heavy for my damaged neck/shoulder.
Minick .500
Early 80’s Conn 8H.

Very happy with what I currently play now……
70’s King 2B
70’s King 3B
60’s Conn 88H Elkhart…… Although as I get older I wouldn’t mind an easier playing .547