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R. Dale Olson’s career in the brass instrument industry began in 1961,
when at the age of 25, he was named Director of Research for F.E.
Olds & Son, Inc., of Fullerton, California. His designs for mutes and
trumpets have been displayed at the prestigious California Design XI and
XII exhibits, and he has been granted United States and foreign patents in
the field. He is the author of Sensory Evaluation of Brass Musical
Instruments and two yet-unpublished manuscripts, Human Mechanisms of
Brass Performance and Prose Writings Related to the Trumpet.
Mr. Olson holds a B.M. degree in music education from the University of
North Texas, a M.M. in trumpet performance from UNT, and an MA in
experimental psychology from California State University. He is a member
of MENSA, and is also trained in the Schillinger System of musical
composition.
Olson’s trumpet teachers were Everett James (father of Harry James), John J. Haynie, Renold Schilke,
John Clyman & Vladimir Drucker. In the field of trumpet design and acoustics, Olson has been associat-ed
with Renold Schilke, William T. Cardwell, Jr., and Dr. Robert Young, past president of the Acoustical
Society of America
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