Bruin

A pre-1970 Connstellation 38B.

mike ansberry

I love my "plain jane" 40B vocabell. I would really love to get a 48B, but the wife thinks 12 trumpet/cornet/flugelhorns are enough. I was looking at a nice 48B on ebay this week, but it went over $700.

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"Music is a fire in your belly that has to come out of your mouth, so you'd better put a horn in the way before someone gets hurt" (paraphrase of Bleeding Gums Murphy)

Eclipse MR in scratch gold
Olds Super/Ultrasonic
Conn 40B
Leblanc Paris large bore with Bach mouthpipe
Bach 37
Olds L-12 Flugel
Benge Picc
Buescher Cornet made in 1914
American Standard (King?) beginner trumpet (crap)

Willing to provide a good home for a stray Conn 48B or Olds Recording

A.N.A. Mendez

Ah, what does she know.........?

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(Above) Alexanders ragtime band-circa 1960

"Baby, I'm already the coolest, and the hippist, now you want me to be on time too?" Buddy Love

"We appointed all our worst generals to command our armies, and our best generals to edit our newspapers." Robert E. Lee

Brass crusader

I love the 22Bs, especially my NY Symphony Special model.

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Yamaha Xeno Custom w/ reverse leadpipe
Conn "Vintage One" C tpt, raw brass prototype
'47 Olds Super Recording tpt
'47 Olds Special tpt
'52 Olds Ambassador cornet
'67 Olds Special cornet
70's Yamaha 631 Flugel w/ Rose brass bell
70's Conn 17b Coprion director
'29 Martin Handcraft "The New Master"
'35 Conn 22B NY Symphony Special tpt
'83 Callet New York Super Large Bore tpt.
'35 Conn 32H tbone
'60's Couesnon Flugel
'70 Bach Stradivarius 37 in lacquer
Kanstul French Besson
Courtois 4-valve picc

tptmusicaz

I love my 1965 38B Connstellation...and hey...I marched with it, played in jazz with it, wind ensemble, and orchestra...great all around horn.

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Tptmusicaz
1965 Conn Connstellation 38B
Bach Strad Eb 229
Schilke P5-4MA
1929 Olds Military Model Trumpet
Mouthpieces: Monette Prana B2S3, B4LDS1, E2S3, and AP5L (piccolo)

jerec576

Could I ask a question about the connstellations?

Are they really the "top-line" professional models of Conn? I heard that they were intermediate models, and was curious about buying one just for the love of a vintage piece. But i wouldn't buy an Ambassador for that reason

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Schilke X3 : Monette B5P

Schwab

Connstellations are excellent trumpets, top of the line. They were very popular when they were new and many top pros still play them decades later, even with all the new fancy choices out there!

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Dylan Schwab
Stage 1 New York

nieuwguyski

UMI used the Connstellation name on an intermediate trumpet in the '90s, but it bore absolutely no resemblance to the original 36B and 38B Connstellations.

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John N. Nieuwguyski

nieuwguyski

The original question is like being asked to choose a favorite child. I have a 1923 80A with a functional Bb/A quick-change mechanism. I have used it on recording sessions and in concert bands, pit orchestras, jazz combos, trad-jazz groups, an orchestra (in A!), a polka band, and even a folk/rock band (with a mic, and there too I used the quick-change to A a time or two). I also have a 48B Vocabell (well, a 48A with a trumpet leadpipe and converted third slide) and have used it on recording sessions and in concert bands, jazz combos, big bands, church gigs, the same polka band, the same folk/rock band, and a soul band.

The 80A is the Leatherman Multi-Tool of horns. With the appropriate mouthpiece it will suffice for just about any job though another, more specialized, tool would probably do better.

The Vocabell though... in certain situations -- vintage big-band charts and (believe it or not) ear-bleedingly loud rock gigs -- can't be beat.

If I could only have one horn, it would be the 80A Victor. But since I have more appropriate horns for most of the gigs I play, my favorite vintage Conn is the Vocabell.

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John N. Nieuwguyski

lamgigi77

my wife get the same thinking too, even I have only three tp.....HA HA