F.E.Olds - Westfield NJ

From 1908 to the present day, the Olds company has continued pioneering and refining the entire range of band instruments, from which every player has benefited. Olds was first to draw its own slide tubing...first to use an exceptionally strong, light, two-piece patented brace...first to use nickel silver tubing for slides...first to use a fluted slide to reduce friction. Famous Olds firsts include free bracing, widely copied in Europe and America, and professional-type valve springing on student trumpets and cornets.

Today, Olds instruments are produced in the most modern manufacturing and research facilities. Every instrument is subjected to the most minute quality control inspection - to make sure that each is fully responsive to every musical requirement and fully worthy of the Olds signature.

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From 1908 to the present day, the Olds company has continued pioneering and refining the entire range of band instruments, from which every player has benefited. Olds was first to draw its own slide tubing...first to use an exceptionally strong, light, two-piece patented brace...first to use nickel silver tubing for slides...first to use a fluted slide to reduce friction. Famous Olds firsts include free bracing, widely copied in Europe and America, and professional-type valve springing on student trumpets and cornets.

Today, Olds instruments are produced in the most modern manufacturing and research facilities. Every instrument is subjected to the most minute quality control inspection - to make sure that each is fully responsive to every musical requirement and fully worthy of the Olds signature.

Everyone remembers F. E. Olds as the Number 1 craftsman of quality band instruments in America. And now, after years of intense research and development, the exciting new Olds band instruments emerge engineered to meet today's evermore challenging performance needs. These new Olds instruments possess superb playing ease as well as an extraordinary built-in sturdiness to withstand the most rugged use.

Make the best better is the F. E. Olds tradition. That is why research is continuous - research that is constantly seeking better ways to make better instruments.

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