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Originally Posted by screamingmorris  ...Since the Conn 6B and the Conn 38B were apparently the only 2 top-end trumpets still being made by Conn in the 1970's, and both had 5-1/8" bells, would Conn have attempted to save money by using identical bell, valves, leadpipe, etc. on both?
Is the Connstellation's nickel-plate and 1st slide trigger the only difference?
- Morris |
I think that's basically true even back into the mid 1960's. I have a 1960 6B Victor, and it's pretty much a Connstellation without some of the nickel plate and a trigger (and the bell engraving's different, of course). The Victor has a brass bell, but who really knows if early Connstellations had a Coprion bell, or just copper plating under the nickel? That's something that the jury's still out on.
