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oldlipguitarplayer
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Andy Cooper
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This is from 1940. Several companies used variations of this design. Interesting if you want to start collecting - though too pricey for me.
https://www.horn-u-copia.net/serial/Roth_list.html
If this is to be your first or only cornet, I would not recommend it to you at any price. |
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Subtropical and Subpar
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| Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2022 1:34 pm Post subject: Re: Ohio Band Company (Reynolds) Regent Vintage 1967 Raw Bra |
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That does look like a Regent B flat / A cornet, as per https://contemporacorner.com/cornets/regent-cornets/.
I personally think Reynolds and its subsidiaries like Ohio Band Company are sleeper horns. Not as well known as Conn or Olds or Martin or other standard bearers of early through mid 20th century trumpet and cornet manufacture, but not necessarily any less in quality. Reynolds worked at York, ran the White (King) factory for decades, started his own brand, sold it, and later was coaxed out of retirement by Olds, where he developed several of their horns (like the Mendez) and hired Ziggy Kanstul. He's a major connecting thread in American trumpet manufacturing and design, in other words.
I have not played a Regent but find my Reynolds Argenta to be well built and of surprisingly good intonation, so much so that I may be eyeing another Reynolds horn.
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Subtropical and Subpar
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| Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2022 1:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Andy Cooper wrote: | This is from 1940. Several companies used variations of this design. Interesting if you want to start collecting - though too pricey for me.
https://www.horn-u-copia.net/serial/Roth_list.html
If this is to be your first or only cornet, I would not recommend it to you at any price. |
I agree with this. I just wrote that Reynolds made great horns, and I stand by it, but that's a lot of money for one of their more introductory / intermediate horns. I've seen Contempora cornets go for not much more than that, along with pro-level mid-century cornets from Conn, Olds, etc. It's an interesting horn, but that's a high price.
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1936 King Liberty No. 2
1958 Reynolds Contempora 44-M "Renascence" C
1958 Olds Ambassador
1962 Reynolds Argenta LB
1965 Conn Connstellation 38A cornet
1995 Bach LR18072
2003 Kanstul 991
2011 Schilke P5-4 B/G
2021 Manchester Brass flugel |
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krax
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It's a student cornet. I've had one. It wasn't a bad horn and a bit fun to play, but played alongside real trumpets or cornets, it just couldn't match them. It didn't have the projection nor the sound quality.
I rarely say this, but that one is overpriced. A lot. |
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Andy Cooper
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| Odd that they didn't take the design one step further and turn the loop into a tunable slide like the Puje. |
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