Expert: Kenton Scott - 9/5/2010

Question
My son recently purchased a trombone and we had it cleaned. The people that cleaned it said we should find out the value of it. It has the original case, slide, mouth piece and the bell piece/everything. It is tarnished in areas, has a few dings, great sound, and seems to have copper in its composition.

The slide has these numbers on it: 28760
The bell section has this written on it:
The Regent Ohio Band Instrustment Co.
Cleveland, OH

Answer
In 1936, Foster A. Reynolds, who also established the Reynolds Band Instrument Company, established the Ohio Band Instrument Company. Producing instruments in the same factory as F.A. Reynolds horns, Ohio Band exclusively sold to dealers in the school band market.  The Regent was Ohio Bands primary instrument line.

Ohio Band offered student instrument dealers a full catalog of Regent-brand brass and woodwind instruments, and band accessories, including stands, mutes, mouthpieces, reeds, etc.

Ohio Band and the Regent brand appear to have been discontinued sometime after Scherl & Roth bought F.A. Reynolds Co. in 1946.