Posted by ----elusiveness----- on January 18, 2003 at 16:39:52:
In Reply to: Re: conn 3J with 5th valve posted by Chuck on January 18, 2003 at 14:39:04:
The tone of this thread did put me off a bit, and I am not very much interested in small bore tubas anyway.
However your posting triggered my not very well developed investigator genes. The Conn 3J seemed to be a somewhat elusive entity!
I checked the low bras pages of my circa 1968 Conn catalogue, which has this index entry in its web incarnation:
Conn background brasses (baritones, tubas, sousaphones). Pages from a circa 1968 catalogue. (907KB) (You will have to save this file to disk and then rotate it within your PDF viewer).
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/YorkMasterPublicPhotosVII/files/ConnBackground.pdf
Thumbnails:
http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/yorkmasterpublicphotosiii/lst?.dir=/Conn+background+brass+from+a+1968+cat
(You will have to enter
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/YorkMasterPublicPhotosIII/
before attempting to see the thumbnail version)
I found no 3J represented there.
Then I checked the according pages in my circa 1985 Conn catalogue. Indexed as follows:
Conn low brass from a circa 1985 catalogue. (2346KB)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/YorkMasterPublicPhotosVI/files/ConnLowBrass1985.pdf
Still no 3J!
The I went to the UMI site and found this most relevant frame:
http://www.unitedmusical.com/catalog/results.asp?Instrument=Tuba&Brand_Name=C.G.+Conn&Product_Type=%25&Submit=GO%21
Many interesting variations on especially one single theme. But still no 3J!
Now there seems to be a call for those more in the know than in the snow!
Klaus