all the big iron.ĭraw benches are used for extruding brass tubes to the desired size and taper. The process is one that calls for a high degree of skill.Īssembling tubas, euphoniums. The 'Bell Spinning department' is where brass instrument bells are formed on spinning-lathes. The 'valve department', where many small pieces are made and put together creating the valve assemblies for all brass instruments. Now, here is a film that everyone needs to see, especially today. Children should be raised on the truth instead of fiction. He became morose and isolated, began to drink heavily, and on September 22, 1975, he was fired. This press is stamping out one of the half sections for a tuba bottom bow.įull movie download free bollywood. These are the machines that make parts like valve cap, stems and finger buttons.īack then, large presses were fitted with custom dies that stamped out sheets of brass into the rough parts of sub-assembled. The Machining department is where most of the tooling is made to order. Conn of there newly built factory in Elk Hart Indiana c.1911.Ī big thank you to our friend James Reid for providing his collection of post cards and allowing us to display the complete set.Ī brand spanking new factory to replace the previous one that burned down.Ĭreating band instruments requires a great number of special tools, forms and jigs. These images are from the post card series originally offered by C.G. We have done our best to clean them up and resize them for better viewing. Shown in numerical order, we thought we would share these very interesting images from the collection of Daniel Oberloh that depict the working environment at the Conn factory, early in the twentieth century. I have included an extra column to indicate the year(s) when the instrument was (at least) in use. The French Horn model number pages This is a complete French horn model number list.

Conn French Horn Serial Number Location.

If the main tunign slide crosses over to the front (and their are two F horn tunign slide in the back on the bottom) then you have a 6D. Whatever number the serial number starts with has nothing to do with the model number.

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'Conn & King Musical Instrument Serial Number Info' This list is not correct for Conn saxophones (see Conn Woodwind Serial Numbers) or Conn bugles (see Pan American Brass Serial Numbers).

When Conn moved to Abilene, Texas they did make horns with six digit serial numbers that drastically overlap the Elkhart numbers.The Abilene horns have 2nd valve pull rings that are as thick as the ones on the new Cleveland horns.

A Conn 8D with a six digit serial number and no letter prefix is not necessarily an Elkhart 8D.

Conn trombone serial numbers