C.G. Conn is a mark of the company Conn Selmer, Inc. , which decreases/goes back to the former American manufacturer of sheet metal wind instruments of this name. In particular the trombones of Conn counted 20 over far parts. Century beside the instruments of the main competitors King and brook to the world-wide most popular trombones of American building method manufactured in series.

History

The founder

Charles Gerard Conn drew year as a child with its family 1850 after Three Rivers, Michigan and in the following after Elkhart, Indiana. Over its youth little is well-known, but it learned probably already early the play on the cornet.

When the American civil war broke out, Conn stepped in the age of 17 years to 18. May 1861 without the agreement of its parents of the army of the north states. It became on 14 June 1862 to the Gefreiten of the B-company 15. Infantry regiment of the state appointed and a regiment chapel shifts Indiana. At expiration of its service it turned back after Elkhart, but on 12 December 1863 it already announced itself in Niles, Michigan at the G-company of the 1. Michigan of sniper regiment to the service.

With 19 years it was promoted on 8 August 1863 to captain. With the second battle around Petersburg on 30 July 1864 Conn was wounded and spent remaining wartime despite two escape attempts in shank. On 28 July 1865 it became honorably to dismiss.

1884 organized Conn the first artillery regiment of the Legion of Indiana and became its first Colonel. 1926 were distinguished Colonel Conn with the honour medal.

The Instrumentenmanufaktur

After the war Conn in Elkhart created first a mixing goods action with baker's shop and played cornet in the local blowing chapel. To the instrument making he came only due to a lip injury. There is three different versions of this anecdote in the circulation; as at the most probable one it is considered that it had come to a common attendance in the Saloon to a fight with Del Crampton. The injury caused when playing its instrument largest pain for it, so that it feared to have to give the cornet play up.

Beside its shopkeeper shop Conn manufactured stamps and silvered cutlery. A daily purged it on the thoughts to pad its cornet mouthpiece with a ring from stamp rubber. This idea met in the blowing chapel large resonance, so that it considered a need for its invention assumed and a quantity production of the new mouthpiece. In addition it wanted to provide its edge with a groove, in order to obtain a more durable gluing of the rubber. he built in addition a simple turning lathe from a cast-off sewing machine for 1874 and began themselves production. (Conn and Crampton reconciled themselves again, and as politicians Conn ranked later among the decided proponents of the Abstinenz).

1875 acquired Conn the patent on its mouthpiece with edge of rubber. Approximately at this time he became acquainted with the instrument farmer Eugene Victor Baptiste Dupont, which had worked before at Henry Distin in London. In January 1876 the two did Dupont as Conn & Dupont together and designed the first American cornet. The so-called "Wonder cornet" was a four-in unity instrument, which could be tuned owing to additional being correct elbows on Eb, C, Bb, and A.

1877 could not be covered the need according to Conns instruments any longer in the small workshop in the Hinterzimmer, so that he decided to the purchase of a empty-standing factory building to the Elkhart Avenue corner East Jackson Street. The partnership with Dupont broke in March 1879, but it succeeded to Conn to enlist and expand 15 well trained instrument farmer from Europe.

The first factory became at Conns 39. Birthday, 29 January 1883 a robbery of the flames, so that it established a new building at the same place. 1887 transferred Conn the Manufaktur of Isaac Fiske to Worcester (Massachusetts), Massachusetts as this to the retirement went. Fiske was considered as a best sheet metal wind instrument farmer its time. Conn resumed the enterprise as subsidiary company. The emphasis of its product range lay at this time still on the "Wonder cornet", but 1885 began Conn to import clarinets and flutes from France. Further Conn stresses the first American saxophone to have manufactured. It developed 1888 after plans of the E.A. Lefebre, to which as well-known soloist had already appeared with the chapels of Patrick Gilmore and John Philip Sousa. Conns of instruments were applied by several prominent Kapellmeistern including Sousa. 1898 developed Conn on suggestion of Sousa the first commercially successful Sousaphon, whose sound showed still upward ("the rain more catcher").

The enterprise in Worcester was gradually shut down until 1898. From 1897 to 1902 Conn operated a business in New York, where he a broadly strewn assortment under the "Wonder" - label drove out. In addition manufactured wood, and counted sheet metal wind instruments as well as percussion instruments, play the violin, Mandolinen and portable harmonies from Conn. Besides were numerous American and imported guitars, banjos and Zithern in the program. 1905 were grown up Conn to the world largest manufacturer of music instruments. The product range covered all usual wind instruments, caper instruments, percussion instruments, a portable organ and acoustic horn for Grammophone at this time.

The second factory burned to 22. May 1910 likewise down, with an estimated loss of between $100,000 and $500,000. Conn was at this time on the return journey of California. With its arrival he became a witness of a public sympathy demonstration of the inhabitants of Elkhart and stated the intention of establishing a third factory. The new enterprise at the crossing of East Beardsley Avenue and Conn Avenue was finished placed on 12 December 1910.

In the consequence Conn acquired among other things several industry-strange enterprise as for instance newspaper publishers and went into the policy.

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