Posted by Christian Klein on January 18, 2003 at 18:24:15:
In Reply to: Re: conn 3J with 5th valve posted by Chuck on January 18, 2003 at 14:39:04:
I post below chuck because he seems like a stand-up guy (regardless of whether that's Chuck J. or Chuck G.). Trying to avoid the flame-fest below.
The list archives have a plethora of information. Mr. Richard Murrow is a Conn artist (or something like that) and has been somewhat of an authority on these horns. I neither know Mr. Murrow, nor have we ever met or any of that jazz.
sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo... a search for "Murrow Conn" got me all of this stuff below:
looks like Harvey's horn was made in 1927:
http://www.chisham.com/tips/bbs/may2002/messages/94707.html
differences btw the 2j and 3j:
http://www.chisham.com/tips/bbs/jul2001/messages/64394.html
another informative post about the 2j:
http://www.chisham.com/tips/bbs/mar2000/messages/24721.html
Now let's all hold hands and take a deeeeeeeeeeeeeeep breath. Count to 10 (or 300 if you're an orchestral guy ;-)
Christian "now back to being tacit unless i've actually got something to say" Klein