King Super 20 S1 bell replacement

king leopardi · Veteran Member Joined: 24 Jan 2009 Posts: 278

I recently acquired a King Super 20 S1 with a badly damaged bell. Wanted to see if anyone on the forum has had any experience with replacing one of these bells.

Dave Brewer

Steve Hollahan · Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2019 11:32 am Post subject: King Super 20 bell

Unless destroyed, most bells are fixable. Can you post pix?
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king leopardi · Veteran Member Joined: 24 Jan 2009 Posts: 278

Haven't posted pictures for a while since I no longer have a Photobucket account. If I can figure it out, I'll post some.

I dropped it off at my local repair shop yesterday afternoon. They're going to do the best they can with the bell. Based on previous experience I've had with them, I imagine that they'll do a pretty good job. Whoever had it actually hammered out the bell rim too. That must have taken some effort!

I had bought it as a parts trumpet, but the valves are in pretty decent shape and it has good bones. It's from about 1949.

Dave Brewer

iiipopes · Heavyweight Member Joined: 29 Jun 2015 Posts: 555

Ryan Boone at Palen Music in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma can fix it. He has repaired bells for me, and you simply cannot tell anything had happened to them. He is a gigging trumpet player himself and understands. One of the bells he fixed was my King S2 Super 20, which suffered misalignment, Couesnon Flugel smoothing out, Couesnon C trumpet bell tail issues, Jupiter pocket trumpet bell crease without compromising the black lacquer, Besson tuba bell creased about as you describe your trumpet bell, etc. Tell him I sent you.
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cjl · Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2019 2:56 pm Post subject:

After the demise of photobucket I was able to use imgur to host a photo to post here without even needing to create an account. Seemed to work pretty easily.

king leopardi · Veteran Member Joined: 24 Jan 2009 Posts: 278

Thanks for the replies, everybody! I've decided at this point not to put any more money into this one. Turns out the valves have only about a half pound of pressure and I have a couple of other Super 20s in better condition that play better.

Dave Brewer