| Serial # | ShipDate | Serial # | Shipdate |
| 1 | 1895 | 260000 | 1934 |
| 2500 | 1896 | 263000 | 1935 |
| 3000 | 1898 | 271000 | 1936 |
| 3500 | 1899 | 278000 | 1937 |
| 4400 | 1901 | 284000 | 1938 |
| 5100 | 1902 | 285000 | 1939 |
| 6700 | 1903 | 288300 | 1940 |
| 8500 | 1904 | 295250 | 1941 |
| 9600 | 1905 | 304500 | 1942 |
| 108000 | 1906 | 309250 | 1943 |
| 12000 | 1907 | 309300 | 1944 |
| 13000 | 1908 | 310200 | 1945 |
| 15400 | 1909 | 314000 | 1946 |
| 17800 | 1910 | 320000 | 1947 |
| 21200 | 1911 | 327150 | 1948 |
| 22500 | 1912 | 332150 | 1949 |
| 25000 | 1913 | 227250 | 1950 |
| 30000 | 1914 | 341850 | 1951 |
| 35000 | 1916 | 341851 | 1952 |
| 40000 | 1917 | 354742 | 1953 |
| 50000 | 1919 | 359251 | 1954 |
| 58000 | 1920 | 500001 | 1955 |
| 64000 | 1921 | 571750 | 1956 |
| 83000 | 1922 | 652002 | 1957 |
| 101775 | 1923 | 718626 | 1958 |
| 124600 | 1924 | 779657 | 1959 |
| 145400 | 1925 | 834200 | 1960 |
| 179000 | 1926 | 898556 | 1961 |
| 193450 | 1927 | 949465 | 1962 |
| 209250 | 1928 | C00501 | 1963 |
| 224600 | 1929 | C73854 | 1964 |
| 237800 | 1930 | E54106 | 1965 |
| 244700 | 1931 | H31247 | 1966 |
| 256501 | 1933 | J35274 | 1967 |
| 260000 | 1934 | L20454 | 1968 |
*Under Connstruction (sorry, you knew that pun was coming...)*
Conn Tuner Necks
At some point Conn manufactured necks with a microtuner (at least before 1921). What the microtuner did basically, is lengthened and shortened the neck to tune the saxophone, without moving the mouthpiece and accidentally moving the reed. Conn made the microtuner with both a overslung octave mechanism (see upper) and an underslung version (lower). I'm not sure if these were available at the same time, or if there was a cutoff period. The underslung octave neck, is from a Conn with a serial number in the 249,000 range (between 1931-1932).
1908(sn 14xxx) High Pitch Soprano
This curved
soprano was made by Conn in 1908 during a time when two pitch standards
existed in the musical community. This soprano is tuned to A=457,
or high pitch, while other instruments (and most instruments manufactured
today) were tuned to A=440, or low pitch, which is today's pitch standard.
On most Conn instruments the difference between high and low pitch was
clearly marked with either the letter 'H', for high pitch, or the letter
'L', for low pitch, under the right hand thumb rest below the serial number.
Instruments that are high pitch (A=457) are generally unplayable with low
pitch instruments since they're nearly impossible to be "brought down"
to the standard for over the past 50 years, A=440. Although the two
pitches are "just" 17 vibrations per second away, this is extremely far
in the musical world, and when both high and low pitch instruments are
played simultaneously, they can create some of the most ear piercing "harmony"
imaginable. As can be seen in the picture, in 1908 Conn saxophones
didn't have a range up to high F or F#. Instead their instruments
were only keyed up to high Eb. Also the "buttons" which today are
usually covered with pearls, were simply metal.
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