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Wisconsin CL: 4v Conn helicon $1550
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Re: Wisconsin CL: 4v Conn helicon $1550
I’ve been trying to message the guy for a while but he takes a while to respond. I’m going up there week after next… hopefully I can get it but ya never know.
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Re: Wisconsin CL: 4v Conn helicon $1550
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Some old Yorks, Martins, and perhaps a King rotary valved CC
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Re: Wisconsin CL: 4v Conn helicon $1550
well if you could put in a word for me that would be great
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Re: Wisconsin CL: 4v Conn helicon $1550
I was just responding to that silly threat of a fight (which was just a joke) by quoting Moe of The Three Stooges.
I'm not interested in the helicon. I have played it, and it plays okay. It's hard to hear because the sound is so far out front, and that bell is constantly trying to pull itself down to the ground due to the length and the weight of it. It's basically just a Conn 14k sousaphone in the shape of a Helicon, but it is a factory instrument.
I'm not interested in the helicon. I have played it, and it plays okay. It's hard to hear because the sound is so far out front, and that bell is constantly trying to pull itself down to the ground due to the length and the weight of it. It's basically just a Conn 14k sousaphone in the shape of a Helicon, but it is a factory instrument.
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Re: Wisconsin CL: 4v Conn helicon $1550
The European versions balance better, it sounds like (especially the bass helicons that aren't round), but they don't use a sousaphone style bit assembly, which can mean ergonomic problems. I had the impression the American helicons did have those bits, though it looks to me like they're omitted here.
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Re: Wisconsin CL: 4v Conn helicon $1550
That is both amazing and tragically sad at the same time.tofu wrote: ↑Tue Aug 01, 2023 9:40 pm Mine was ordered by the wife of a guy for his return from WW1. He didn't make it back from WWI. She then shoved it to the back of a second floor closet of their house in Winnetka IL where it stayed until her death @ 96 in 1988. I bought it from the estate. It was black from tarnish but like new except a bashed in knuckle on the second valve slide probably from being shoved in the closet.
Some old Yorks, Martins, and perhaps a King rotary valved CC