Found: Herman Conrad's great-great grandson!

[Dave Detwiler]

After various searches through Herman Conrad's family tree, I was finally able to locate a living descendant of that great tubist who was the first to play the Sousaphone. His name is Daniel Corry, and he is Herman's great-great grandson (Daniel's father was Christopher, whose mother was Henrietta Alice Conrad, whose father was Edward Columbus Conrad, whose father was Herman).

As it turns out, Daniel lives within a few hours of me, so we connected this past Saturday and had a marvelous time! I was able to share the whole story of his great-great grandfather, of whom he was unaware, and we made a trip out to the J. W. Pepper headquarters, in Exton, PA, where Daniel was able to play the historic horn that Herman was the first to play 121 years ago.

I can't seem to post a photo here (quota reached?), but check this out: http://tubapastor.blogspot.com/2016/09/ ... ndson.html

[bisontuba]

Nice detective work!

[bort]

Neat! Is he a tuba player, too?

[Dave Detwiler]

Neat! Is he a tuba player, too?

Unfortunately, no. He played percussion in the past, and may get back into playing again. But he had a blast trying out the Sousaphone!

[masonacoats]

This is fantastic! I dig the blog post too.