{"id":187,"date":"2013-09-18T02:34:39","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T02:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesax.info\/makesandmodelslist\/?p=187"},"modified":"2013-11-01T18:59:34","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T18:59:34","slug":"conn-new-wonder-transitional-gold-altos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/Pete\/makesandmodelslist\/conn-new-wonder-transitional-gold-altos\/","title":{"rendered":"Conn New Wonder “Transitional” Gold Altos"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of the best known features of the Conn New Wonder “Transitional” horns is an elaborate, art-deco-style engraving. For Conn’s gold-plated horns, though, this was turned up to eleven.<\/p>\n

\"Split-bell<\/a>
Split-bell key model, “Transitional” engraving. s\/n Unknown. From intofoc.usmontreal @ eBay<\/a> via Bassic Sax Pix<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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“Transitional” refers to the period between roughly 1930 and 1935 where Conn was making a variety of key and bore changes. The era ended when the tenor gained single-side bell keys, at approximately serial number 262500.<\/p>\n

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\"Single-side<\/a>
Single-side bell key model, “Transitional” engraving. s\/n 245xxx (1932). From intofoc.usmontreal @ eBay<\/a> via Bassic Sax Pix<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The other very obvious thing to see is an evolution from the New Wonder-style engraving, through the “Transitional”-style engraving to the “Naked Lady” engraving found on the next Conn models (Standard\/Artist).<\/p>\n

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\"Single-side<\/a>
Single-side bell key model, \u201cNaked Lady\u201d engraving. s\/n 250404 (1932). From a href=”http:\/\/saxophone.org” target=”_blank”>saxophone.org.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Note that even the “Transitional”-engraved horns shown above have slightly different engraving. I’m sure there was a degree of customization with all “Transitional”-engraved, gold-plated horns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,63,31],"tags":[36,38,37,33,20,34],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conn","category-conn-new-wonder-transitional-gold-altos","category-us-sax","tag-1930s","tag-6m","tag-alto","tag-conn-2","tag-gold","tag-transitional","excerpt","zoom","full-without-featured","even","excerpt-0"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/Pete\/makesandmodelslist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187"}],"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=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/Pete\/makesandmodelslist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/Pete\/makesandmodelslist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/Pete\/makesandmodelslist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/Pete\/makesandmodelslist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/Pete\/makesandmodelslist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/Pete\/makesandmodelslist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}