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A Conn New Wonder Series 2 alto saxophone (dated 1927). The 'H' below the serial number indicates that it is a "High Pitch" (A=456 Hertz) instrument. A "Low Pitch" saxophone would have 'L' below the serial number.
Rudy Wiedoeft in 1920, playing a C-melody saxophone Frankie Trumbauer holding a C-melody saxophone, circa 1922 A straight-necked Conn C melody saxophone (New Wonder Series 1) with a serial number which dates manufacture to 1922 Dick Stabile playing a C melody saxophone in New York, c. 1946 A straight-necked Conn C melody saxophone (New Wonder ...
Vito is a brand name for Leblanc USA, now part of Conn-Selmer USA. The Vito name was used for student through professional (Yanagisawa baritone saxophone) instruments. Leblanc USA was formed in 1946 by Vito Pascucci, and the French woodwind manufacturer, G. Leblanc Cie of France. To meet high demand, Leblanc USA started to manufacture clarinets ...
A Conn 'Pan American' alto saxophone, manufactured circa 1948.This saxophone has a similar body to a Conn 6M and keywork which is reminiscent of a Conn New Wonder. The company was founded in 1917 by Carl Dimond Greenleaf, (July 27, 1876, Wauseon, Ohio - July 10, 1959, Elkhart, Indiana) who was president of C.G. Conn.
A silver-plated Conn 'New Wonder' Series II tenor saxophone, with a serial number which dates manufacture to 1934. It is a very late "Transitional" model tenor sax with split bell-keys, and was manufactured just before production of the Conn 10M started. Berry played a tenor saxophone almost identical to this one.
Holton saxophones never enjoyed the reputation or sales of their competitors C.G. Conn, Buescher, Martin, or King, but generate interest for the idiosyncratic keywork on some early models. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] In the early 1930s the Holton Collegiate line of student horns was introduced, which would last through the 1970s. [ 11 ]
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Serial Numbers: around 110,000 - around 525,000; Less than a decade after starting-up the Main Street plant, production moved again to a Conn factory belonging to the Selmer Company on Industrial Drive in Elkhart, alongside of which the Conn-Selmer corporate offices are located presently.