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- not a sexy bass trombone...
- not a particularly highly-respected (at least, not during it's final era) manufacturer
- no fancy custom work
- just a whole bunch of fixing of beat-up and out-of-whack stuff...

I'm lazy, and really too tired (I'm also a bit ill, this week) to even copy/paste, so...

https://www.facebook.com/midsouthmusic7 ... BADAEPtael

Nice work! Sounds like it was sort of beat to hell, yeah?

Looks great. I played bass trombone in my college "third band" (non-music majors... well, a few not-extremely-gifted music majors on their primary instruments, and a lot of fine players on secondary or tertiary instruments along with other students and some community members) on one of these horns. It didn't have any sort of bullet brace or anything like that -- that sucker was heavy! Definitely a left arm workout. I hope the owner enjoys many more years out of it.

The repair-guys on the bass trombone fb page seem fascinated with my playing slide repair techniques.

It never occurred to me to find out what others do, but - apparently - none the way I do it.

It just seems to me that doing things any other way - than the way I do them - defines "trial-and-error-ory on every single playing slide repair...

...and I'm just not that patient.