Olds Register photo guide – Los Angeles

Question 7: Other features

There are photos in the survey instrument for this question, but we’ll include more details here in case additional assistance is needed.

First valve slide saddle (or bracket for one).

Several Olds models had an adjustable “saddle” attached to a bracket with a set screw on the first valve slide. Often over the years, the adjustable saddle has been lost from many instruments, but whether the saddle is in place or only the brackets remain, please select this feature. All Super cornets had this feature. Other cornets as well as some Super, French and Standard trumpets had this feature.

Third valve slide stop rod (or bracket for one).

Some Olds models had a third slide stop rod on the underside of the third valve slide. It consists of a rod with a threaded cap on each end of the rod and was secured by a set screw in the bracket. This style was discontinued around 1947. It can be found on some French, Standard, Special, Super and Super Recording models.

Main tuning slide brace

This is a feature found only on some trumpet models. This feature does not apply to cornets. It can be found on pre-war Super trumpets and all Super Recording and Recording trumpets. This first photo shows a tuning slide with this brace:

This is a tuning slide without a brace:

Main tuning slide stop rod (or brackets for one)

This is generally a 1930’s and 1940’s feature often called a “quick change” rod which allows the player to have a set position on the rod to pull out the slide a fair distance to change the pitch of the instrument from Bb to A. It was common on some pre-war trumpets and cornets, but is rarely found on post-war instruments.

This trumpet is missing the stop rod, but has the brackets for one.

Hammered bell.

Olds produced many instruments in the 1930’s with a hand-hammered bell option. Military models came with this as a standard feature, but other models could be ordered with this feature. It is a striking feature!

Spring loaded first slide trigger

This was a feature of the Mendez model, but it occasionally appears on other models.