Re: Conn sousaphones - not all quite the same
Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 6:16 pm
Yup, Conn sousaphones are funny.
Haven’t a plastic one, but I think it is OK with such, if it can make some money for a poor librarian being hit by the colours of time. Or was that a poor libertarian?
Some genius named a 14K a compact sousaphone, which wondered me, as I find Conn’s less compressed than other sousaphones. The squeezing factor of the Conn’s, at least the real pre-WWII ones, is their weight. I have two hard cases for two of my three Conn sousaphones. I always thought the one that the 28K came in was the smaller one compared to the one of the 40K. But when I a few months ago had them side-by-side, the 28K case was bigger, if only marginally so.
I don’t enter the Eb 26K and 28K any more, as I have them on stands, where I sit outside the circle and play them. The 40K is in a Wenger chair, where I have arranged the supports, so that the circle is closer to horizontal than if it had hung on my shoulder. Gives me plenty of room.
I think the Conn’s have all just about the same outer diameter of the body, so that all will fit in the same cases (the Giants likely excepted). The odd result is that the opening of the body is larger in the Eb models than in the BBb’s. The latter have that second level back and bottom bow stealing some of the player’s space.
Klaus
Haven’t a plastic one, but I think it is OK with such, if it can make some money for a poor librarian being hit by the colours of time. Or was that a poor libertarian?
Some genius named a 14K a compact sousaphone, which wondered me, as I find Conn’s less compressed than other sousaphones. The squeezing factor of the Conn’s, at least the real pre-WWII ones, is their weight. I have two hard cases for two of my three Conn sousaphones. I always thought the one that the 28K came in was the smaller one compared to the one of the 40K. But when I a few months ago had them side-by-side, the 28K case was bigger, if only marginally so.
I don’t enter the Eb 26K and 28K any more, as I have them on stands, where I sit outside the circle and play them. The 40K is in a Wenger chair, where I have arranged the supports, so that the circle is closer to horizontal than if it had hung on my shoulder. Gives me plenty of room.
I think the Conn’s have all just about the same outer diameter of the body, so that all will fit in the same cases (the Giants likely excepted). The odd result is that the opening of the body is larger in the Eb models than in the BBb’s. The latter have that second level back and bottom bow stealing some of the player’s space.
Klaus