Trumpets

Conn 40B Vocabell - Brass

United States

Brass

C.G. CONN LTD ELKHART IND. USA Serial # 295564

Early Conn Rimless Vocabell with octagonal valve casings and a Conn Gold Tone #25 Mouthpiece. This is one of the most unique trumpet designs to come out of the art deco era. Unique is the position of the third slide finger ring on the octagonal third valve casing, which is reversed from the usual/modern way. What Conn said in 1933 about the Vocabell: The most popular trumpet on the market. Used by such first chair stars as Lebert Lombardo (Guy Lombardo), Jack Cavan (Charlie Agnew), Lamar Wright (Cab Calloway), Charlie Williams (Duke Ellington), David Glickstein (Broadway shows) and Eddie Camden (Don Bestor). The Vocabell rim is a single, integral piece of metal which allows it to vibrate freely. Conventional bells have a rigid wire in the rim which tends to muffle the tone and dampen out the delicate harmonics that are so essential to clear tone and rich coloring. Delicate instruments of Columbia Broadcasting Studio in New York show the Vocabell has from 12 to 15 decibels greater volume, is smoother and more even in scale, and is clearer and purer in tone than trumpets with the conventional type bells. Provenance: Dr Paul "Judd" and Ernestine Kirk

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