In addition to running his store, Conn also made rubber stamps and re-plated silverware. Saxophone GalleriesĬonn's upper lip was severely lacerated, and it pained him so to play his cornet that he thought his playing days were over. There are three existing stories of how this occurred, but the popularly accepted version is that Del Crampton slugged him in the mouth outside a saloon where both of them had been drinking. Conn's entrance into the musical instrument manufacturing business was the result of a split lip. He also played cornet in the local community band. After the war, Conn returned to Elkhart and established a grocery and baking business. He was also the first commander of the Elkhart Commandery of the Knights Templar. He was honorably discharged on 28 July In Conn organized the 1st Regiment of Artillery in the Indiana Legion and became its first Colonela military title which stayed with him throughout the remainder of his life. In spite of two imaginative and valiant attempts to escape, he was recaptured and spent the remainder of the war in captivity. During the Assault on Petersburg on 30 Jul圜onn was wounded and taken prisoner. On 14 June he became a private in Company B, 15th Regiment Indiana Infantryand shortly afterwards was assigned to a regimental band.Īt the age of nineteen on 8 August he was elevated to the rank of Captain. With the outbreak of the American Civil War he enlisted in the army on 18 May at the age of seventeen, despite his parents' protests. Little is known about his early life, other than that he learned to play the cornet. Los Angeles, California 5 January In he accompanied his family to Three Rivers, Michigan and in the following year to Elkhart, Indiana.
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The company was sold in and then again inreorganized under the parent corporation United Musical Instruments UMI in Conn survived as a brand of musical instruments manufactured by Conn-Selmerretaining several instruments for which it was known: the Conn 8D horn, 88H trombone, 62H bass trombone, 52BSP trumpet and the 1FR flugelhorn. In the company was sold in bankruptcy to the Crowell-Collier-MacMillan publishing company.Ĭonn was divested of its Elkhart production facilities inleaving remaining production in satellite facilities and contractor sources. During the s the bulk of its sales revenue shifted to electric organs. Its early business was based primarily on brass instruments, which were manufactured in Elkhart, Indiana. It bought the production facilities owned by Charles Gerard Conna major figure in early manufacture of brasswinds and saxophones in the USA.
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