Wisconsin CL: 4v Conn helicon $1550
Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2023 10:36 pm
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Re: Wisconsin CL: 4v Conn helicon $1550
Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2023 12:57 am
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.
Re: Wisconsin CL: 4v Conn helicon $1550
Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2023 6:48 am
I know the seller of this horn (I live not too far from him). Honest and reputable!
Re: Wisconsin CL: 4v Conn helicon $1550
Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2023 8:35 am
I've played it.
It's front-heavy, but it works.
It's front-heavy, but it works.
Re: Wisconsin CL: 4v Conn helicon $1550
Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2023 4:28 pm
Re: Wisconsin CL: 4v Conn helicon $1550
Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2023 4:55 pm
Why, I oughta...
Re: Wisconsin CL: 4v Conn helicon $1550
Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2023 7:44 pm
Re: Wisconsin CL: 4v Conn helicon $1550
Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2023 7:47 pm
Re: Wisconsin CL: 4v Conn helicon $1550
Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2023 8:02 pm
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.
Re: Wisconsin CL: 4v Conn helicon $1550
Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2023 8:18 pm
ive personally never have had the chance to play on a helicon before, they seem neat though
Re: Wisconsin CL: 4v Conn helicon $1550
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2023 9:29 am
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.
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2023 9:40 pm
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Re: Wisconsin CL: 4v Conn helicon $1550
Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2023 12:06 am
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.
Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2023 2:11 am
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