Pan American Sousaphone Neck

[brocktorock]

Hey everyone. I'm in the process of acquiring an old Pan American Sousaphone, and I'll need to be getting a neck and bits for it. Does anyone have any ideas for that? I'm guessing that some sort of old or maybe even current Conn parts might work?

[Dan Schultz]

Most of the old Conn sousa necks will work. If you buy new be sure your tech knows to get you one for a current 20K sousaphone.

[brocktorock]

Most of the old Conn sousa necks will work. If you buy new be sure your tech knows to get you one for a current 20K sousaphone.

Ok, thanks for the info! I'm gonna see if I can find one around here somewhere, and if not I'll probably try to get one here on the forum.

While I have the thread open, do any of you experts on older tubas know what to think of this?

It's listed as a Pan American Elkhart, and that matches up with bell engraving. However, all of the Pan American Eb sousas I've seen have a different kind of bracing on the main tuning slide. This one, however, looks exactly like a Conn 26k (shown below).

Anyone know why this might be? Maybe the bell and body aren't matches? Or Conn changed the Pan American design at some point?
Thanks in advance!

[Dan Schultz]

Pan American was made by Conn in the Elkhart factory. Your sousa is an Eb.

[brocktorock]

Ah, ok. So it's essentially a 26K stencil?

[Guest User]

Pan American was Conn's student line for years. It is not a stencil, which would be a tuba made by one company who then engraves another company's label on the bell. This is a genuine CG Conn Eb sousaphone, but it is from the Pan American line of less expensive horns.