Conn 10M Transitional Tenor Saxophone 250009 Art Deco Silver Plate Recent Overhaul Outstanding!

Description

This is a very nice condition Conn New Wonder II tenor, built in 1932, among the earliest of the “transitional” series with art deco engraving and raised side E key.  It is in its original silver plate, and has a recent mechanical overhaul on it that was very well done. This tenor is tight and slick and snappy and not mushy under the fingers (as can sometimes happen to Conns with less-than-stellar overhauls) and has the simply unbelievable enormity of tone that even now, after having owned and played about as many saxophones as anyone else, still surprises and delights me when I pick up a Conn.  As a repairman friend of mine is fond of saying “I am not prone to hyperbole, but I could go to court and win the case that Conn has the biggest tone.” If you haven’t had a chance to play a 1920s-1930s Conn, you simply haven’t seen all that the saxophone can do. A good Conn is a truly astonishing instrument, and it is easy to see why so many of the professionals of the era favored Conns. If you need to project to the back of a dance hall in the age before amplification, a Conn is the way to go.  

And because so many professionals of the golden age of big band and jazz played Conns, it is not common to find one in clean shape- and although almost anything can be fixed in the right hands, I find it better to start with a clean example when possible, even (perhaps especially) when being fixed in the right hands.  And this horn fits the bill- straight, not abused, not refinished, not overly worn, and well overhauled. 85 years old and ready to play out of the case, putting other horns to shame with its undeniably massive tone. This is a great horn, and whoever buys this one, your neighbors 3 houses down are going to know when you make the switch.