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A Conn 'Pan American' alto saxophone, manufactured circa 1948. This saxophone has a similar body to a Conn 6M and keywork which is reminiscent of a Conn New Wonder. The company was founded in 1917 by Carl Dimond Greenleaf, (July 27, 1876, Wauseon, Ohio - July 10, 1959, Elkhart, Indiana) who was president of C.G. Conn. Greenleaf was expanding ...
In 1930 the Pan American company was absorbed by C. G. Conn, with C. G. Conn retaining and utilizing the Pan American brand for its second-line instruments until 1955. By 1920 C. G. Conn was producing a complete line of saxophones. In this area they had stiff competition from other big saxophone makers such as Buescher and Martin. Around 1917 C ...
Epiphone Coronet; Manufacturer: Epiphone: Period: Original: 1959-1970 First reissue: 1990-99 Second reissue: 2020: Construction; Body type: Solid body: Neck joint
E.A. Couturier was born September 30, 1869, in Poughkeepsie, New York to a family with three other children. [1] At the age of fourteen, he began playing the cornet. [2] He entered the New England Conservatory of Music in 1885, but withdrew and took a job repairing watches in his uncle's shop. [1]
Reynolds began as an apprentice with the Brass band instrument manufacturer J.W. York.At York he learned brass band instrument design in a tradition that traced its lineage back through James York, the company's founder to the company where he learned the craft, the Boston Musical Instrument Company, which in turn had been formed by the union of the E.G. Wright Company (est. 1841) and Graves ...
Thomas P. Coates (1803 – October 11, 1895) was a 19th-century American musician who achieved initial prominence in Pennsylvania for his performances on the cornet and French horn. The director of Pomp's Cornet Band in Easton, Pennsylvania , [ 1 ] he was commissioned as the first conductor of the regimental band of the 47th Pennsylvania ...
The original business was a used instrument shop began in 1898 by American trombone player Frank Holton in Chicago, Illinois. The firm built brass instruments for ten years in Chicago , then in Elkhorn , Wisconsin from 1918 until 2008, when production of Holton-branded instruments moved to Eastlake , Ohio. [ 1 ]
Karl Lawrence King was born in the village of Paintersville, Ohio. [1] He was the only child of Sandusky S. and Anna Lindsey King. The King family moved to Canton, Ohio, when he was eleven, the age he used newspaper carrier income to purchase his first musical instrument – a cornet.