{"id":176,"date":"2013-09-17T20:22:45","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T20:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesax.info\/makesandmodelslist\/?p=176"},"modified":"2013-10-06T18:54:45","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T18:54:45","slug":"conn-new-wonder-transitional-silver-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/Pete\/makesandmodelslist\/conn-new-wonder-transitional-silver-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Conn New Wonder “Transitional” Silver Family"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The “Transitional” period is the era of Conn saxophones where Conn was switching back to left-side bell keys. They’re also notable for having a beautiful, art-deco-style engraving.<\/p>\n

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Split bell keys, “Transitional” engraving. 4M Curved Bb Soprano. s\/n 239xxx (1930). From saxpics.com<\/span><\/a> via cybersax.com.<\/span><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Other than the engraving, the 4M curved soprano and 8M C melody tenor did not change at all during the “Transitional” period.<\/p>\n

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“Transitional” engraved 18M Straight Bb Soprano. s\/n 235703 (1930). From saxpics.com<\/span><\/a> via eBay.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The straight soprano underwent a massive bore redesign in 1928, where the overall length of the horn grew by (IIRC) a half inch. This design allegedly made for better intonation, but today it also made for a lot of folks confusing the 18M with an A soprano, which (sadly) never made it into production.<\/p>\n

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Split bell keys, \u201cTransitional\u201d engraving. 6M Eb Alto. s\/n 239xxx (1930). From saxpics.com.<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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“Transitional” model New Wonder saxophones in finishes other than gold plate have a standard engraving. It’s not custom, nor as elaborate as what’s on their gold-plated brethren, but it’s still beautiful.<\/p>\n

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“Transitional” engraved 8M C Melody Tenor. s\/n 239967 (1931). From saxpics.com<\/span><\/a> via Saxquest.com<\/span><\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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As mentioned above, the 8M C Melody Tenor did not change at all during the “Transitional” period, other than with the engraving. The popularity of the C Melody was getting fairly low by the 1930s. There were some later US-made horns, though.<\/p>\n

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Split bell keys, “Transitional” engraving. 10M Bb tenor. s\/n 250191 (1932). From getasax.com.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The “Transitional” period for Conn refers to the period between roughly 1930 and 1935 where Conn was making a variety of key and bore changes, one of the more obvious changes is a switch back to single-side bell keys on the alto. The era ended when the tenor gained single-side bell keys, at approximately serial number 262500.<\/p>\n

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“Transitional” engraved 12M Eb Baritone. s\/n 238090 (1931). From Saxquest.com.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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It’s not only possible, but probable that there are “Transitional”-engraved horns of other pitches than those mentioned above, including the 16V Eb contrabass Sarrusophone (Conn’s Eb contrabass saxophone equivalent). I’ve just not seen them. A Conn Bb bass saxophone with “Transitional” engraving would be absolutely epic!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,62,31],"tags":[36,33,35,34],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conn","category-conn-new-wonder-transitional-silver-family","category-us-sax","tag-1930s","tag-conn-2","tag-new-wonder","tag-transitional","excerpt","zoom","full-without-featured","even","excerpt-0"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/Pete\/makesandmodelslist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/Pete\/makesandmodelslist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/Pete\/makesandmodelslist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/Pete\/makesandmodelslist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/Pete\/makesandmodelslist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/Pete\/makesandmodelslist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/Pete\/makesandmodelslist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/Pete\/makesandmodelslist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/Pete\/makesandmodelslist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/Pete\/makesandmodelslist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/Pete\/makesandmodelslist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}