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Originally Posted by Toobz  I think anyone that has spent time researching older horns would recognize your frustration . Pointing out errors and discrepancies is part of the process. Hopefully, by examining these issues, we can someday sort these out. I like to believe that Christine understands how you feel. Most likely as someone who has herself, scratched her head in confusion and frustration more times than we have. |
Christine has been frustrated by the fact that Conn did not bother to publicly state how the 1950's-1960's Connstellation bells were made or keep any company records on how they were made.
Since that is a relatively recent model, and Conn's most famous model, imagine how lacking the records are for older and more obscure Conn models.
This is not a slam against other loyalist sites for other brands, but is intended as a compliment to Christine:
The Conn Loyalist site is 100 times more informative than the loyalist sites for other brands, so I hope the other loyalist sites will keep working at improving their sites so that eventually all brands will have loyalist sites that are as informative as the Conn Loyalist Web site.
My only real complaint about the Conn Loyalist site is that some pages are hard to find from the home page, I can only find those pages because I stumbled across them in the past and bookmarked them.
For example, "Conn models by year and quality" is under "Articles" on the home page rather than being accessed from the "Conn trumpet page" or "Conn cornet page".
The present navigation of the site is good, but it could be even better.
But I know that Christine is presently working hard on the site, upgrading so much of the site that some links in the site are temporarily not working.
I don't think anyone fully appreciates just how difficult it must be for Christine to manage that huge Conn Loyalist Web site all by herself.
I only use the trumpet and cornet sections, which amount to a huge amount of information in a multitude of pages.
But the Conn Loyalist home page shows that Christine also has sections devoted to:
Conn Alto Horn and Tenor Horn Pages Conn French Horn and Mellophone Pages Conn Trombone Pages Conn Baritone and Euphonium Pages Conn Bass and Sousaphone Pages Conn Bugle Pages Conn Saxophone Pages Conn Clarinet, Flute, Piccolo, Oboe and Bassoon Pages
Christine single-handedly running the entire Conn Loyalist Web site is like one person single-handedly running the entire Los Angeles Zoo.
I hope Christine has an heir apparent ready to take over the Conn Loyalist Web site some day, because that site is too valuable to just fall to the wayside 50 years from now.
- Morris