

Byhe had established the first electroplating shop in Southern California, doing silver plating with H. An amateur trombone player and entrepreneur, he first set up a shop to build bicycles, which was the only one in Los Angeles at the time.

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Olds was born in Medina, New York in While a child his family moved to Toledo, Ohio.Īfter finishing high school, F. Olds and Sons, based in Mountainside, New Jersey. Reynolds in have since been bought and revived in by a new company under the name F. The Olds and Reynolds names Olds merged with F. By the late s or early s, although still producing some professional level instruments, the company had become better known for mass-produced student instruments.Ĭonstruction quality declined as production quotas were emphasized. The company made brass instrumentsespecially trombonescornetsand trumpets. Olds in Los Angeles, California in the early s. Olds was a manufacturer of musical instruments founded by Frank Ellsworth F.
