C. G. Conn

BRASS INSTRUMENT MODEL NUMBERS

And

DATES OF MANUFACTURE

1919 -- 1965

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BORE SIZES, BORE DESIGNATIONS and MODEL DESIGNATIONS for Conn brass instruments
LETTER-SUFFIX DESIGNATIONS in the CONN INSTRUMENT FAMILY:


Conn used a letter-code suffix to denominate its various instrument families and types, as follows:

BRASSES
                 
A = cornets / fluegelhorns   B = trumpets               C = alto horns 
(the pages listing model
designations lower than 46A
are missing from the brass list)


D = french horns             E = mellophones (missing   F = tenor horns (missing
                                 from the brass list)       from the brass list)


G = valve trombones          H = slide trombones        I = baritones and euphoniums 
                                                            (missing from the brass list)


J = upright basses (missing  K = Sousaphones (missing   L = bugles (missing
    from the brass list)         from the brass list)       from the brass list)

WOODWINDS
M = saxophones (not included N = clarinets (not included O = flutes (not included
    in the brass list)           in the brass list)          in the brass list)


P = piccolos (not included   Q = oboes (not included
    in the brass list)           in the brass list)
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MODEL DESIGNATIONS ON CONN BRASS INSTRUMENTS:
	Before about 1927, Conn's specific model designation was not stamped
anywhere on its individual horns. However, on some models the model name (such as
"Wonder", or "New Proportion", or "Wonderphone") was incorporated into the bell
engraving on each horn, or perhaps only on the more deluxe versions of a particular
model.

	Beginning about 1927, Conn began stamping its model designation in
small numbers and capital letters on the leadpipe of each instrument, at the mouthpiece
receiver. These designations are often overlooked when examining a Conn brass
instrument built after 1927 (see, for example, Marshall Scott's Ph.D. dissertation, The
American Piston Valved Cornets and Trumpets of the Shrine to Music Museum (1988),
UMI No. 8805447). 

	In this model designation, the letter always appears after the model
number. On the following list — and when it was stamped on the receiver of the
instrument itself — the model designation appears without a hyphen, i.e., "22B"
or "35H." On a few individual instruments, the leadpipe marking may omit the letter (such
as a known 28B trumpet which is marked "28"). Also, some models, such as the 8B
Symphony Grand Gustat Model trumpet (introduced 1932) may sometimes carry no
model designation at all on the leadpipe.

	Regardless of the model designation without hyphen on the instruments
themselves, in Conn's catalogues the model name was usually listed as "22–B" or "35–
H." It was only relatively infrequently printed without the hyphen.

	By the 1950's, the model designation on the leadpipe of Conn trumpets
and cornets was sometimes replaced by an engraved model name itself on the leadpipe
at the mouthpiece receiver, such as "Victor", or "Connstellation A" (38A cornet) or,
"Connstellation B" (38B trumpet).



Source: Conn dealer/repair shop,
            
            via Robb Stewart Brass Instruments
            140 E. Santa Clara Street, #18
            Arcadia, California 91006
Note:    First page or pages of cornet list missing
All information is © Copyright 1999, Ralph J. Jones; Tom Meacham
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