Posted by js on August 24, 2002 at 18:45:57:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: looks like an OLDS?? posted by Mark E. Chachich on August 24, 2002 at 18:28:24:
Instruments of the same model vary a great deal, and I've played worse and better Olds O-99 and Reynolds TB-10. (The very first one of these that I played was a Reynolds TB-10 sent "new" to my high school (c. 1973) in two hollowed-out blocks of styrofoam - (its "case"). That particular instrument "stunk". But honestly, except for the bell ring, engraving, and top valve caps, these two models were 100% identical and made by the same folks in the same building.*
*Later when Olds/Reynolds went out of business, Bach bought this tooling and made these with their workers in Indiana.