Conn DIRECTOR anyone?

So my nephew's Bach trombone needed some work and I offered to let him use my old one, a Conn Director that's almost 50 years old as a loaner until he got his back. I wasn't sure it was even playable since it's been hanging on a nail in the wall in the workshop in our basement for years, the case having disintegrated long ago, but I got it down and cleaned up the slide, lubed it and stuck an old 12C mouthpiece in to give a toot. Pleasantly surprised at how sweet it plays, I would even use this horn as a back up. I think my dad paid $38 for it back in the day. Or else I'm just that fantastic that I can make something like that sound good..... Yeah, riiiiight!