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Its from Russ Morgan "Music in the Morgan Manner"

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.

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haydenlance wrote: ↑Mon Mar 10, 2025 4:28 pm 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.

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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.

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

Looks like an Old Olds to me

Benn

octavposaune wrote: ↑Mon Mar 10, 2025 4:54 pm 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...

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

Benn

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

KingThings wrote: ↑Mon Mar 10, 2025 11:25 pm 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.

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

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

kenkugler wrote: ↑Tue Mar 11, 2025 2:21 am 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??