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1932 C G Conn 40B Vocabell Professional Jazz Bb Trumpet Raw Brass Awsome!
Estimated price for orientation: 749 $
Category: Trumpets
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Description Skill Level: Professional Finish: Raw Brass
For your consideration is a 1932 (first year) C G Conn 40B Vocabell Professional Bb Jazz trumpet, serial 285xxx, in remarkable raw brass condition. This horn has been professionally refurbished, to include chem clean, felts and pads replaced, valves and slides reworked, and polished to a smooth, honey brass lustre. Dings and dents have been removed where possible. There is a professionally installed 1/4"x1/4" patch that repaired a pinhole on #1 slide elbow (see picture). Playability is not affected.
The horn plays great. The intonation is accurate and pure, Chromatic slotting is definite and discreet, particularly throughout the upper register above the stafff. This horn has a great reputation as one of the best jazz trumpets around. The following information was gathered courtesy of the Conn Loyalist website:
"Notice the vocabell (rimless), the octagonal valve casings and the position of the third slide finger ring. In case you are wondering: the valves themselves aren't octagonal. Also note that the position of the third valve slide and the tuning slide on the third valve casing are reversed from the usual/modern way.Apparently the instruction manual said of the valves: "Use distilled water on the valves. Only inferior horns need oil lubricant". The 40B has a #1½ (0.459") bore, and was produced from 1932 to 1941".
"What Conn said in 1933: The most popular trumpet on the market. Used by such first chair stars as Lebert Lombardo (Guy Lombardo), Jack Cavan (Charlie Agnew), Lamar Wright (Cab Calloway), Charlie Williams (Duke Ellington), David Glickstein (Broadway shows) and Eddie Camden (Don Bestor). The Vocabell rim is a single, integral piece of metal which allows it to vibrate freely. Conventional bells have a rigid wire in the rim which tends to muffle the tone and dampen out the delicate harmonics that are so essential to clear tone and rich coloring. Delicate instruments of Columbia Broadcasting Studio in New York show the Vocabell has from 12 to 15 decibels greater volume, is smoother and more even in scale, and is clearer and purer in tone than trumpets with the conventional type bells. Beautifully styled in modern manner. Medium bore, Bb and Am springs in bottom of valves."Included is a gold plated Conn 4 mouthpiece and the original Conn hard case, with locking key, in good condition.This horn is waiting for the right player, collector or both.If there is international interest, please contact me before bidding to determine additional shipping costs to your location.Good Luck and Happy Bidding!
Description
| Skill Level: | Professional | Finish: | Raw Brass |
For your consideration is a 1932 (first year) C G Conn 40B Vocabell Professional Bb Jazz trumpet, serial 285xxx, in remarkable raw brass condition. This horn has been professionally refurbished, to include chem clean, felts and pads replaced, valves and slides reworked, and polished to a smooth, honey brass lustre. Dings and dents have been removed where possible. There is a professionally installed 1/4"x1/4" patch that repaired a pinhole on #1 slide elbow (see picture). Playability is not affected.
The horn plays great. The intonation is accurate and pure, Chromatic slotting is definite and discreet, particularly throughout the upper register above the stafff. This horn has a great reputation as one of the best jazz trumpets around. The following information was gathered courtesy of the Conn Loyalist website:
"Notice the vocabell (rimless), the octagonal valve casings and the position of the third slide finger ring. In case you are wondering: the valves themselves aren't octagonal. Also note that the position of the third valve slide and the tuning slide on the third valve casing are reversed from the usual/modern way.Apparently the instruction manual said of the valves: "Use distilled water on the valves. Only inferior horns need oil lubricant". The 40B has a #1½ (0.459") bore, and was produced from 1932 to 1941".
"What Conn said in 1933: The most popular trumpet on the market. Used by such first chair stars as Lebert Lombardo (Guy Lombardo), Jack Cavan (Charlie Agnew), Lamar Wright (Cab Calloway), Charlie Williams (Duke Ellington), David Glickstein (Broadway shows) and Eddie Camden (Don Bestor). The Vocabell rim is a single, integral piece of metal which allows it to vibrate freely. Conventional bells have a rigid wire in the rim which tends to muffle the tone and dampen out the delicate harmonics that are so essential to clear tone and rich coloring. Delicate instruments of Columbia Broadcasting Studio in New York show the Vocabell has from 12 to 15 decibels greater volume, is smoother and more even in scale, and is clearer and purer in tone than trumpets with the conventional type bells. Beautifully styled in modern manner. Medium bore, Bb and Am springs in bottom of valves."Included is a gold plated Conn 4 mouthpiece and the original Conn hard case, with locking key, in good condition.This horn is waiting for the right player, collector or both.If there is international interest, please contact me before bidding to determine additional shipping costs to your location.Good Luck and Happy Bidding!
The horn plays great. The intonation is accurate and pure, Chromatic slotting is definite and discreet, particularly throughout the upper register above the stafff. This horn has a great reputation as one of the best jazz trumpets around. The following information was gathered courtesy of the Conn Loyalist website:
"Notice the vocabell (rimless), the octagonal valve casings and the position of the third slide finger ring. In case you are wondering: the valves themselves aren't octagonal. Also note that the position of the third valve slide and the tuning slide on the third valve casing are reversed from the usual/modern way.Apparently the instruction manual said of the valves: "Use distilled water on the valves. Only inferior horns need oil lubricant". The 40B has a #1½ (0.459") bore, and was produced from 1932 to 1941".
"What Conn said in 1933: The most popular trumpet on the market. Used by such first chair stars as Lebert Lombardo (Guy Lombardo), Jack Cavan (Charlie Agnew), Lamar Wright (Cab Calloway), Charlie Williams (Duke Ellington), David Glickstein (Broadway shows) and Eddie Camden (Don Bestor). The Vocabell rim is a single, integral piece of metal which allows it to vibrate freely. Conventional bells have a rigid wire in the rim which tends to muffle the tone and dampen out the delicate harmonics that are so essential to clear tone and rich coloring. Delicate instruments of Columbia Broadcasting Studio in New York show the Vocabell has from 12 to 15 decibels greater volume, is smoother and more even in scale, and is clearer and purer in tone than trumpets with the conventional type bells. Beautifully styled in modern manner. Medium bore, Bb and Am springs in bottom of valves."Included is a gold plated Conn 4 mouthpiece and the original Conn hard case, with locking key, in good condition.This horn is waiting for the right player, collector or both.If there is international interest, please contact me before bidding to determine additional shipping costs to your location.Good Luck and Happy Bidding!