TROBENTA Conn 40B Connqueror Vocabell Bb

CONN CONNQUEROR VOCABELL Bb trobenta, #1½ premer (.459, MEDIUM), ozek model
Model: 40B
Leto izdelave: 1932, vir: Conn Loyalist (https://cderksen.home.xs4all.nl/ )
Material: medenina, lakirana

Trobenta je v odličnem stanju glede na leta se odlično igra. Je zbirateljski model, saj je po nekaterih podatkih ena redkih "preživelih" trobent s to oznako na svetu. Trobenta ima tudi lepo gravuro grškega boga divjine, gozda, pastirjev, čred, pašnikov, lova in pastoralne glasbe Pana, ki igra na piščal.

Kaj so o trobenti napisali pri proizvajalcu Conn:

Posebnost te trobente je, da odmevnik na koncu ni zavit, ampak je raven. To je t. i. odmevnik brez robu. Oblika ventilov je osmerokotna, pri čemer pa naj povem, da so ventili normalne, okrogle oblike. Posebnost te trobente je, da sta glavni poteg ( na glavni cevi, v katero se namesti ustnik) in pa t.i. poteg za tretji ventil zamenjana za razliko od modernih trobent. "Vocabell" je ena izmed prvih, če ne še celo prva Connova trobenta narejena iz t.i. debele medenine, kar pomeni, da je instrument težji od prejšnjih. Ima oriiginalen kovček


Kaj so o trobenti napisali na strani Metropolitanskega muzeja iz New Yorka https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/742533 (citat):

" The streamlined and minimalistic form of this trumpet presents a strong American art deco aesthetic and captures the visual and musical style of the Jaz Age. Particuarly notable are elements such as its streamlined water keys, valve casings and touches, finger hook and braces. The instrument displays many decorative surface finishing techniques including hammering/planishing, mirror burnishing and sandblasting to produce a matte finish. The bell is rocker-engraved with stylized geometric motifs and a depiction of pan playing his pipes.


The instrument features Conn’s distinctive rimless ‘vocabell’, designed to increase the instrument’s volume, per Conn’s description in a 1933 edition of the Conn Loyalist:


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. Beautifully styled in modern manner. Medium bore, Bb and A, springs in bottom of valves."

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