When the Conn Company was sold to the publishing giant Crowell-Collier
Macmillan in 1969, all of Conn´s old corporate records and files, dating back to
at least the early 1900´s, were deliberately destroyed. Apparently, there is no
single authoritative list of Conn models and years of manufacture from the company
itself.

               One is amazed by the unbelievable variety and magnitude of Conn´s 
brass instrument production from 1919 to 1965, particularly considering that not all
of the cornet models are shown (the first pages of the cornet list are lost), nor are 
the baritones, euphoniums, tubas or Sousaphones listed. This was one prodigious brass 
instrument factory! It´s a shame that most of its historical records were deliberately 
trashed only a relatively few years ago.
               Users of this list should be cognizant of the fact that just 
because the list uses 1919 as a starting date, it does NOT mean that 
some of those products were not produced BEFORE 1919. 
             The C. G. Conn Company began began manufacturing instruments 
in 1874.


               Robb Stewart of Robb Stewart Brass Instruments, 
140 E. Santa Clara Street, #18, Arcadia, California 91006, who recognized the Conn 
list for what it is, rescued it from oblivion. He got it from an instrument repairman who
was apparently throwing things out.