Anyone can identify this trombone?

[frankgalante]

Its from Russ Morgan "Music in the Morgan Manner"

[haydenlance]

Umm. I'm a bit late to the party butttt. I believe it is a King Liberty 2-b
I just stuck it into Google image search, found the person (Tommy Dorsey) and looked up what instrument he played. It said King Liberty 2-B and it looks the exact same.

Hope This Helps!

[BGuttman]

Umm. I'm a bit late to the party butttt. I believe it is a King Liberty 2-b
I just stuck it into Google image search, found the person (Tommy Dorsey) and looked up what instrument he played. It said King Liberty 2-B and it looks the exact same.

Hope This Helps!

Couldn't be a King without the curved bell brace. There's not much to help identify among the other likely candidates: Conn, Bach, Martin, Reynolds, Olds, Holton, etc. Note that Yamaha was not providing trombones at this time, and most of the custom makers we are familiar with were not yet in business.

I found several other images of Morgan, none of which show him holding a King. One picture shows a trombone with a flared bell brace like a Conn 48H or Olds Recording. The cover photo for the Music in the Morgan Manner LP shows a King 2B, but Morgan is not holding it.

And that's not Tommy Dorsey.

[haydenlance]

Fair, Google only goes so far on things like this.

[octavposaune]

Looks like an Old Olds to me

Benn

[JohnL]

Looks like an Old Olds to me

Benn

Could be. I've seen an Olds advertisement from the late 1950's featuring Russ Morgan holding what looks like an S-15 Super, and in the jacket photo for the album "Medleys in the Morgan Manner" (1962), the trombone he's holding is clearly a Super - but both of those are several years later than the image the OP is referencing. I'm pretty sure that image is from this short:

which is dated 1937.

Here's a really good image:
https://resources.tidal.com/images/07a6 ... 40x640.jpg
It's an undated, but it looks like maybe Bach engraving to me...

[octavposaune]

That pic is definitely a Bach John! I thought the blurry image posted earlier looked a lot like a Bell tuning Olds Standard!

Benn

[KingThings]

Looks like the Olds Super I played once.....1947. But its hard to tell......

[JohnL]

Looks like the Olds Super I played once.....1947. But its hard to tell......

The image in the original post does not appear to have the characteristic Super flared/streamlined braces.

[kenkugler]

Saw this on Reverb, 1956 add with Russ Morgan for Olds.

https://reverb.com/item/60409689-framed ... s-trombone

[KingThings]

Saw this on Reverb, 1956 add with Russ Morgan for Olds.

https://reverb.com/item/60409689-framed ... s-trombone

Kinda looks like an Old Recording??