(d)o you have any ideas on Conn Catalogs that aren't on the Sax site? The "National Music Museum" may or may not have more, but they're not easy or cheap to deal with remotely.

>OTOH, do you have any ideas on Conn Catalogs that aren't on the Sax site? The "National Music Museum" may or may not have more, but they're not easy or cheap to deal with remotely.

Unfortunately I only have the 1971, 1979, and 1983 items from Christine Derksen [Conn Loyalist], all on the site.
I keep an eye out but these catalogs aren't super common; I could ask the former Eastlake production manager, as he had thousands of spec sheet vellum and some spare-parts lists.

I happen to have some spare-parts lists, with 1980/1981 Conn, early 1990s UMI binder, mid-1980s Blessing, and a couple others.

I'd really like to get something from the mid-1970s, since there was a brochure that announced the 16x and even Coprion versions - can confirm from seeing several, one with a cracked bell rim - and Conn quickly realized how expensive that was becoming.
A better 1986 catalog as well, since it still had Abilene horns...

Another one totally unrelated: a mid-1950s print of the East German vocational book on brass instrument manufacture, Metallblasinstrumente, and a much newer print.

Better granularity of the 19-teens and 1930s Conn catalogs is of interest to me personally. Yea, nobody else seems to have any info, I dug up one or two on the Indiana Historical Society site. When someone sells a paper copy, they think they have a gold mine and price it accordingly - not that they come up very often anyway. Sigh!