A Conn 8D with a six digit serial number and no letter prefix is not necessarily an Elkhart 8D. When Conn moved to Abilene, Texas they did make horns with six digit serial numbers that drastically overlap the Elkhart numbers. Vintage Pan American Elkhart Ind French Horn Serial Number P 33961. About this product. French Horn and Case. Vintage Conn 8D Connstellation F-Bb Double French Horn; Elkhart, IND. Best Selling in French Horns.

This item is in excellent condition. Here's an AWESOME Elkhart Conn 8D.

The Conn 8D is a breed apart among double horns. Brilliant, bold sound, awesome response, and great intonation have made the 8D a staple of American orchestras. While any 8D is a good instrument, the Elkhart instruments are legendary. This one was made at the legendary Elkhart factory (serial number Kxx,xxx - see pic). This horn is in terrific playing condition and good cosmetic condition. Original lacquer is 90% or so.

There are minor dents and scars (see pics), but this horn has never been badly damaged. Valves are excellent and tight, and this horn plays great like you'd expect an Elkhart 8D to.

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Charles Gerard Conn was the patriarch of musical instrument manufacturing in Elkhart, Indiana and a pioneer in the music industry. In 1873, C.G. Conn developed a brass mouthpiece with a rubber rim to allow him to play the coronet with an injured lip. By 1876, he had converted an old sewing machine into a lathe and began building instruments.

Conn was a true innovator blazing a trail of firsts on American soil- 1st American-made cornet, saxophone, sousaphone & BBb Tuba, to name just a few. Conn forever shaped the music industry by founding the 1st National School of Music, 1st National band contest, the industry’s 1st R&D department as well many other musical instrument industry 1sts.

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The man from whom I purchased it, said that he thought it was from before the Civil War, as those dates confirm. This Estey pump organ is in excellent condition. Estey pump organ models. The only thing that we added, was some carpet pieces to the pedals to make it easier on the feet to pump. It plays well, if you have the leg muscles to pump it! Using the serial numbers that are imprinted in the wood with the Estey Date estimator on their website, it shows that this organ was manufactured between 1850 and 1855. It has candle holders/flat wooden disks on each end that stand 14 inches from the top of the organ. It has a great deal of ornamental carving on the music stand and on the sides.