[TPIN] Conn trumpet

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In a message dated 6/7/2006 6:26:18 PM Central Daylight Time,  
reddogremodelers at kc.rr.com writes:

Early  70's
Conn made the Director. Preceded the Yamaha trumpets. I thought the  serials 
began with P for the Japan  Conns.

Byron


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I referred cellblock7 to the Conn Loyalist website and the person who owns  
it.  Maybe she will have some definitive information.  There's no  mention of 
Japanese made instruments on her website that I can find, but I could  have 
easily overlooked it.  What makes it more confusing is the five digit  serial 
number on the horn in question.  The original Conn serial numbers  were way up 
into the high six digits by 1961.  Conn had different number  schemes after that 
which involved numbers and letters.
 
_http://www.missouri.edu/~cceric/sn/conn.html_ 
(http://www.missouri.edu/~cceric/sn/conn.html) 
 
Please post information on TPIN if you have anything on Japan made  Conns.  
Obviously there were some.  There is just not much information  out there about 
them.
 
Mike