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This rather unusual car/truck was at the show, a rather nice looking pickup conversion on a Ford PInto, it seems to be a good quality job on the custom conversion...
High River Car Show 2008
The Model 235's receiver differs from those on all prior Buescher horns. Note how it gradually tapers out to its mouth, which lacks a rounded bushing.
The Model 235 and the Aristocrat Custom Built Models 236, 237 and 238, all in production at the same time, were all fitted with receivers of this type.
I don't know anything about the receiver's specs, or if it really differed from the receivers on other Buescher instruments of the time in any way other than its appearance. Presumably it and the mouthpipe assembly's specifications were different.
1934 Ford Truck built ground up by Ed Riley of Crosby,Tx. This truck has 350 hp Chevy LS1 Motor and weighs 2500. The truck was built to drive on the street, go to the Car Shows, and just have fun.
1934 Ford Truck built ground up by Ed Riley of Crosby,Tx. This truck has 350 hp Chevy LS1 Motor and weighs 2500. The truck was built to drive on the street, go to the Car Shows, and just have fun.
1934 Ford Truck built ground up by Ed Riley of Crosby,Tx. This truck has 350 hp Chevy LS1 Motor and weighs 2500. The truck was built to drive on the street, go to the Car Shows, and just have fun.
The Model 215 was loaded with Buescher's bottom-sprung "Pin" style valves, similar to the valves Buescher had been using in the Aristocrat and Custom Built models since the 1930s.
Instead of being guided by a "star" type guide at the top of the valve, there is a lug milled into the side of the valve itself that fits into a groove cut into the valve casing's inside wall.
Buescher's pin valves seem to be very durable; I've played a number of Buescher's Custom-Built horns from the '30s that were in physically terrible shape - except for the valves!!
This horn was made before Buescher became dedicated to making student level instruments and it still tried to offer up professional level horns. It was very well constructed.
However it didn't sound like the earlier Buescher cornet models I've played.
Most Buescher horns tend to play dark, as did this one. It was really dark, and really loud. But the tone didn't have the brightness or sizzle around the edges like the Model 275 cornet or the dense richness of the earlier Custom Built cornets.
It didn't sound bad, it just didn't have what I liked in Buescher's earlier horns. If you had handed it to me to play blindfolded, I wouldn't have guessed it was a Buescher horn.
Buescher's bottom-sprung "Pin" valves. You can see the "pin" on the left-most valve, at the top; it's a small lug milled or brazed onto side of the valve. It fits into a groove cut into the side of the valve's wall.
These have been pulled from a 1935 "Aristocrat Custom Built" Model 235 trumpet.
The Aristocrat Custom Built horns were engraved with a more elaborate pattern than on the base line Aristocrat model trumpets. They are all engraved in an Art-Deco inspired pattern; a style Buescher started using in the early '30s.
Ron Cravens with Dad's first place-winning Class XII home-built trailer and custom-restored Gold Wing at Wing Ding XVII, presented by the Gold Wing Road Riders Association (GWRAA),1995 in Greenville, South Carolina; this is following that award, in the Christmas parade in Henderson, Kentucky that same year. The corvette trailer top popped up and the luggage went inside. It got a lot of attention, needless to say. Here is an even better photo.
Lamp built in semitransparent material with steel brushed base featuring a small planet picture of night scene from Empire State Building. Energy saving 15 W incandescent bulb for a romantic mood. Silver transparent electric chord with elegant black foot/hand switch. 5 1/2'' x 5 1/2'' x 5 1/2''. Diameter of translucent piture ca. 4''. Uses this image. See all other pictures possible in this model.
The shop decided to leave the grab irons their respective colour and not paint them white. The crew gives the unit a couple of coats of dullcoat to protect the paint and decals bringing it all together.
Photo- Jeff Semper
I don't know what happened to the leadpipe, whether it got dinged very hard or suffered bad enough corrosion to eat through the metal. It's patched in three different places.
Note the hefty nickel-silver brace and it's two large feet, one of them soldered directly to the receiver.
Here again you can see remnants of Buescher's opaque "gold" lacquer on the valve block, slide, brace and receiver.
The Model 235's bell-tail taper is long and gradual; the taper on the Aristocrat horns was similar but perhaps a little tighter. The flare out to the bell's rim, here and on the Aristocrat, starts out pretty close to the bell's mouth. Both models seem to have been designed to deliver a compact, focused tone.
The Model 232 Aristocrat bell diameter measured to 4.25"; I'm not sure of the the Model 235's diameter. I'll have to measure it!!
Note how the main tuning slide is canted to the left, and the nickel-silver components used in the slide assemblies. It's interesting that Buescher sprayed lacquer over the nickel-silver horn components - but that appears to have been standard practice for Buescher.
1934 Ford Truck built ground up by Ed Riley of Crosby,Tx. This truck has 350 hp LS1 Chevy Motor and weighs 2500. There is a Custom Built Pro-Street Frame with a 9" Ford Rearend and a Kuggel Front end. The truck was built to drive on the street, go to the Car Shows, and just have fun.
Here's a nice detail shot of hte Paragon Machine Works Sliding drop outs. these enable Marty to run any combination of gearing imaginable. Literally.
This horn is a multi-pitch instrument configured to play in the key of Bb and A.
The main tuning slide has two components. The part of the slide with two straight braces is a separate component from the crook in the slide. The crook will extend away from the section with the two braces.
To tune the horn to A you extended the entire slide assembly, and then extended the crook even farther out.
There is a locking ring on the other side of the horn, where the main slide tubing enters the the tubing sleeve that extends from the bottom of the third valve case.
Once you had adjusted the entire slide to the proper position, you could lock the section with the two braces into place but still adjust the crook's position for fine-tuning.
You also had to adjust the valve slides; they have a mark on the tubing showing about where you needed to extend them.
Note that Buescher applied lacquer over the whole horn, including the nickel-silver portions of the slides.
Note the simple vertical brace in the main slide's crook. The features and details of the post-war models are leaner and simpler than on the pre-war horn designs.
Note that the taper in the bell-tail appears to be more pronounced than on pre-war models.
The "Acousta-Bell".
Note the construction of the bell's rim. The Custom Built horn rims were a little different from the Aristocrat; the Aristocrat had a thicker rolled rim. It lacked the narrow, flat ribbon of reinforcing metal seen here just behind the rim.
The Buescher saxophones of the 1930s used a similar construction method, though they didn't tout the saxes as using the "Acousta-Bell" process. However, they did brag about a special annealing process used for the brass.
In 1967 the Ministry of Transport commissioned a fleet of seven custom-built Bedford vehicles to go around the country promoting British production techniques. Only one bus survives and it took the current owner Ollie Halls five years to retore the mobile cinema to it's pristine condition. The Vintage Mobile Cinema seats 22 in comfort and has a state-of-the-art HD digital projection unit. Above the cab there is ( for the 1960's ) a futuristic-looking clear Perspex dome.
More images from the visit can be seen on my website www.fozimage.com/fozlogs-20110219.htm
The Model 235 featured nickel-silver tubing on the first, second, third and main slides, as well as the pinky hook, bracing between the mouthpipe and bell-tail assemblies, and the bushing between the bell-tail and first valve casing.
Note that Buescher used nickel-silver for all slide components, not just the visible outer sleeve portions.
Note here and in the next pic that the main slide is configured to curve down at an angle and enter the third valve case on the left side of the third valve slide. That had become a signature note for Buescher's trumpets; the Aristocrat of 1930 had been configured the same way.