I'm cleaning out a lot of my horns... here's one I just recently bought, love, and then proceeded to buy a few very expensive horns that force me to sell this instrument. This is what I get for buying too many and then seeing my credit card bill! OUCH!
It's a wonderful Vintage Conn 2B New World Symphony Bb trumpet in Gold plate. It does appear to be all original. All slides and valves work really well. This was Conn's introduction of the "modern" Bb trumpet, a .460 bore (Medium Large today but huge back then), and plays VERY much like an old French Besson. The sound is clean, crisp, and projecting. It's even throughout the range of the horn and intonation quite good for a horn of this era. The valves look great and I think are original.
Here's more info on the horn (more info can also be found at the "conn loyalist" pages online).
REAL COLLECTOR'S ITEM
THIS IS THE (CONN 2B NEW WORLD SYMPHONY
CONN 2B NEW WORLD SYMPHONY PRO LEVEL TRUMPET
What CONN said in 1950: One of the two most famous trumpets of all time are the 2B in medium bore .
*Is the only CONN trumpet to have a saddle in the first valve during late 1800's and 1930. They started having saddles again after 1970.
*PINKY is unusual in this trumpet as most right hand instruments in the 20's didn't have one .
*TOP SPRING VALVES IN GOOD WORKING ORDER .
*FINISH accordingly with our information is ...(00)quadruple gold plate.
*Completely hand burnished,bell richly engraved,finger tips pearl inlaid .
*All SLIDES moving good .
*SERIAL # 264*** (1929)
Sound clips will be up on Monday of this fantastic horn.
I have a bunch invested into this instrument but just bought a new flugelhorn on ebay and need to cover that cost. So here's your chance to get a tremendous vintage horn at a great price.
I will ship worldwide (no insurance on international orders unless I claim FULL value for customs, no exceptions). For US orders it will be $40 for priority shipping and insurance. Canadian buyers will pay $50 (priority and insurance), and foreign buyers will be charged $75.
Please check out all of my other auctions coming soon!
On May-14-08 at 14:15:03 PDT, seller added the following information:I have added three very low-fi videos on Putfile for your viewing and listening. The first video shows the horn a bit better... the second and third are really brief sound clips. Pardon the rusty chops due to my accident yesterday. No reverb or any additional processing have been added. The horn really does play great!
http://media.putfile.com/2b-video-pics
http://media.putfile.com/quick-low-fi-clip-on-2b
http://media.putfile.com/another-low-fi-2b-clip