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Re: Conn fwiw
Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 10:07 am
by MartyNeilan
You mean it is not a Donna-Telly?
Re: Conn fwiw
Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 5:15 pm
by Dan Schultz
I had a 28J once. It had a 22" flare and a very small stem. It was a front-action horn though. Strange looking horn!
Re: Conn fwiw
Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 9:18 pm
by SousaSaver
Does anyone know who won that auction? I NEED that bell...
Re: Conn fwiw
Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 11:09 pm
by Dan Schultz
KiltieTuba wrote:TubaTinker wrote:I had a 28J once. It had a 22" flare and a very small stem. It was a front-action horn though. Strange looking horn!
how'd it play?
It played OK. ... just OK in my opinion, anyway. Understandably, those horns were built in the day when 'bigger was better'. Conn liked to put bigger bells on old model horns and call them 'improved'.
Re: Conn fwiw
Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2012 11:45 am
by Tom Coffey
I saw, but did not play, a helicon with that same exaggerated flair into a very large bell. They take on a cartoonish visual aspect when the bell is out of proportion like that.