Antique Musical Instruments/Revere Stradolin trombone

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Expert: - 11/10/2008


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I have a trombone marked Revere Stradolin Elkhart Indiana.  Do you know who manufactured these? I can only find info on Revere from England. I assume it's a student line from one of the manufactures in IN, but can find no info on it.

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I have no definitive information on the Stradolin instruments, but my suspicion is that they were sold by the Humeniuk Bros of New York City.

Pawlo Humeniuk was a Ukrainian immigrant who built musical instruments in New York, primarily violins.

The horns were not made by Stradolin, but were rather made by some unknown maker and sold by Stradolin.  

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