C. G. Conn Club
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@flugelgirl
What exactly does the extra tubing do on the side of the first valve?
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@bigdub That's on the bell tail. It's called a microtuner, or "opera glass" tuner. Turn the screw to tune up or down in small increments.
Yamaha YTR-8335G
Monke Bb trumpet
Carol Brass flugelhorn
YTR-6810 piccolo
Burbank Eb/D
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@jolter said in C. G. Conn Club:
@bigdub That's on the bell tail. It's called a microtuner, or "opera glass" tuner. Turn the screw to tune up or down in small increments.
Yup. On my 8A, it works better to tune from the micro tuner than from the main tuning slide! On my 80As, most of them it doesn’t make that much of a difference. I love the look of them and how they play, though - super fun little horns!
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For all members of the Conn club who own and play instruments with Crysteel clickless valves a word of warning.
Beware of the cork on the top of the valve moving around and causing the valve to stick or hang.
The cork should be glued on to the top of the valve for trouble free valve operation.
Trumpets
Besson New creation 1924
Besson New Creation Large Bore 1948
Besson New Creation Medium Bore Modele Francaise 1948
Olds Ambassador LA model 1948
Selmer Invicta with french rim
Cornets
Conn 80A 1953
Conn 80A 1965
Yamaha 2330 -
@trumpetb said in C. G. Conn Club:
For all members of the Conn club who own and play instruments with Crysteel clickless valves a word of warning.
Beware of the cork on the top of the valve moving around and causing the valve to stick or hang.
The cork should be glued on to the top of the valve for trouble free valve operation.
I’ve had a couple old Conns with those valves and I detest them. It’s almost impossible to oil a valve and get it back in quickly, and that’s just one of my complaints…lol
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Here’s a nice 1929 Conn 22B I used to own. Complete kit - only thing missing was the A stop rod.
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I feel your pain Dale and I know they can be quite tricky.
They changed the design of the valves and the guides many times and made it slightly simpler as the decades moved on.
The early valve guides had the pegs in different locations in the valve blocks and that made it difficult, later they made the pegs all in the same location so that was slightly better but the guides could still jam and be problematic to position correctly.
Once you have the knack I find them simple to align and fit.
I prefer the Crysteel valves now to the more regular top sprung valves with internal springs in a cage that are in common use.
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If my eyes do not deceive me that would be the 22b New York Symphony early model with top sprung valves.
That is a peach and very desirable.
Trumpets
Besson New creation 1924
Besson New Creation Large Bore 1948
Besson New Creation Medium Bore Modele Francaise 1948
Olds Ambassador LA model 1948
Selmer Invicta with french rim
Cornets
Conn 80A 1953
Conn 80A 1965
Yamaha 2330 -
@trumpetb said in C. G. Conn Club:
If my eyes do not deceive me that would be the 22b New York Symphony early model with top sprung valves.
That is a peach and very desirable.
Yes, and I believe it was close to the end of Conn’s open top-sprung valve era. That trumpet played very well and was in almost perfect condition. I asked a reasonable price for it and the buyer was very happy with it.
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Remember this stuff? more sore eyes than eye candy, but...it's Conn!
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