Chris "Columbus" wrote: << Conn had hand made horns? >>
Now, it is depending the mostest as to what you mean by "hand made" as I once visited the old Conn factory in ELKHART, IND as the bells used to toll, right of the Indiana Toll Road, in fact, and I can give you the mostest of assurings that there were many hands there making instruments of all types, including the famous and then very cheap 8D, as well as the 4D, 6D, 28D, etc. and trumpets and trombones and tubas and mellophones and alto horns and mellophoniums and sousaphones and also the moutpieces to put in these things to make the playings thereoff, and so, NO, they were not "HAND MADE," but, YES, they were HANDS MADE," but later I heard that they started stamping them out of sheet metal in Costa Rica or Panama or someplace like that and then they mated the Conn and the King unsuccessfully in Ohio and now they are trying to clone Holtons like sheep or something like that so I'm glad I still have my trusty old 6D and my double-belled, six valved, single B Sansone! Kindestest of Greetonings and Mostestest of Informations for the Mechanically Impaired, Prof. I. M. Gestopftmitscheist Principal 8th horn and Principal 4th Wagner Tuber, Schplittenotendorf am Oedland Staatsoper und Philharmoniker, (ret.) Solo Horn, Exit 2 Brass Quintet Hornist, Broken Winds WW Quintet Solo 4th Horn (Leader, call me for bookings), Smirnoff Horn Quartet Assistant Associate Principal Mellophone, NJ Turnpike Authority Drum and Bugle Corps, "The Phantom Lane Changers" Hornist as Needed, L'Ensemble du Chambre des Palourdes Principal Natural Horn, I Soloisti di Feces Principal Baroque and Hunting Horn, Camarata Vongoleforte Adjunct, Part-time, Arms-length Professor of Horn and Pest Control, Exit 2 Community College, Exit 2, NJ Author, "The Kopprasch Connection," "Kopprasch for Fun and Profit," "Kopprasch for the New Millenium: Where Do you Fit In?" "Hooked on Hornonics," and "What If Saddam Had Given Ouday and Qusay Olds Ambassador or Conn Pan American Single F Horns and a Kopprasch Book Instead of AK 47's, Booze and Porn?" Founder, Director and CEO, Universal Institute for the Study, Preservation and Dissemination of Kopprasch Throughout the Solar System Founder and Guru Extraordinaire, Hornaholics Anonymous Grand Poobah of the Koppraschian Kult Director and Program Manager, The All Kopprasch Channel (AKC), Kopprasch Public Radio (KPR) Host of The Kopprasch Factor on AKC and All Kopprasch Considered on KPR Founder of Kopprasch Depot, your one stop shop for all you need! Interplanetarily Known Soloist and Artist of Record Exclusive Bundy, Carl Fischer, Olds Ambassador, Sansone and Conn Artist Who Does Not Get His Horns For Free Phone: yes Fax: yes E-mail: yes Website: no "To know Kopprasch is to know Kopprasch." _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
