We're very excited to start listing some treasures from my good friend and trumpet buddy Brad Goode's collection! If you don't know Brad was the one that inspired me decades ago to start collecting vintage trumpets and I am thankful for his incredible knowledge and advice throughout these past 30 or so years. There's some incredible players in this collection, some VERY rare instruments, and some of his workhorses. Now that he's working with XO Brass on a fantastic modern instrument he's decided to find homes for some of these treasures.
This horn is a late Elkhart (not Abilene or Eastlake) Conn 60B trumpet with some special modifications from Brad himself which he did in his garage.
He added 22b braces to the horn to change the responsiveness and centering.
This is a fun little horn!
Here's how the fantastic Conn Loyalist page describes the 60B:
Not the most imaginative name. It really is called the "Sixty-B". In 1967 Conn started to produce the 60B, and it lasted at least through 1972. It had a #1½ bore (0.458") and top spring valves. It was available in standard brass and with a "bright silver finish". I am told that the 60B was play tested for Conn by Buddy Childers and Gene Goe.
I have been contacted by a gentleman by the name of Bill Bracker who was an Inspection Supervisor for Conn at the time. He tells me the official name for the 60B was "Super Connstellation". One of Conn's clinicians at the time, the trumpet player Jerry Franks, was responsible for the design of the 60B and had the very first 60B prototype. Mr. Bracker tells me that the first production run of 60B's could not be sold as first line production; they were sold as seconds. The problem in production was easily fixed for the second production run.
What Conn said in 1966:
The most versatile, the finest trumpet ever created by Conn. .. designed for the professional. Extremely light weight. Includes three sets of interchangeable finger tips. Completely new acoustical and mechanical design throughout. Ideal for studio, recording, solo or band work. Length 21 5/8". Bell 4 5/8".
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