Klarinet Archive - Posting 000061.txt from 2004/04

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Conn-Selmer (was Re: [kl] Baxter-Northrup C
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 19:01:17 -0400

At 02:08 PM 4/4/2004 -0400, Don Hatfield wrote:
>I think Conn veered off the right path in the late fifties with their saxes,
>and the stuff made after the move to Nogales is nowhere near the quality of
>their saxophones of the thirties to mid-fifties.

Yep. After they dropped the 6M/10M models (the ones that had the so-called
"naked lady" engraving, they really never competed in the PROFESSIONAL sax
market again. And what happened to them after the move to Nogales proves
that you should NEVER put an MBA in charge of a business that caters to
ARTISTS. (Well, MAYBE somebody like me, whose undergraduate degree is in
music, but...)

>As for the clarinets, the
>only ones I ever had chance to try were the old Conn Directors. The only
>reason I ever owned one on high school was to have something to play
>outdoors in bad weather. The ones I have tried in the past were all
>stinkers. I know I've seen some mention here, but didn't Artie Shaw play a
>Conn, and if so what was it?

Earlier professional wood Conns might have been OK, but were never wildly
popular. C.G.Conn WAS a brass player, after all!

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

---------------------------------------------------------------------
Klarinet is a service of Woodwind.Org, Inc. http://www.woodwind.org