In 1915, Conn retired and the company was purchased by Carl Greenleaf.
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In 1907, he built an immensaphone, the largest horn in the world at 12 feet in diameter and 35 feet long. Conn also continued on a series of “firsts”, building the first American made saxophone and the first sousaphone, built to John Philip Sousa’s specifications. The Colonel loved strange and bizarre instruments. By 1893 his instruments were awarded the highest honors in the World’s Columbia Exposition in Chicago. The factory was rebuilt bigger and better and production continued. During his second term, he was forced to resign due to a factory fire in 1883. In 1880, the town of Elkhart, Indiana became so enamored with C.G. In that same year, Colonel Conn would build the first American made cornet.īy 1879, Conn moved operations into larger quarters and began making other instruments.
After watching him work for a few days, Conn believed he could build his own instrument. In 1875, a French instrument maker named Dupont began repairing instruments in Conn’s shop.
Conn converted an old sewing machine to a lathe and set-up a shop building these mouthpieces. Conn developed a brass mouthpiece with a rubber rim. In 1873, following a brawl in a bar which resulted in a split lip, C.G. Xylophones, Vibraphones, Marimbas, GlockenspielsĬharles Gerard Conn was the patriarch of musical instrument manufacturing in Elkhart, Indiana.
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