mi sa che ti sbagli ... ti confermo il 1969
ti consiglio una lettura della "bibbia" delle Conn made in Elkart
http://cderksen.home.xs4all.nl/index.html
ipotizzo che nel 1970/71 siano uscite alcune trombe montate ad Abilene, ma con pezzi fatti ad Elkart (immagino ci sia stato un periodo di transizione). In ogni caso se nella campana non c'è scritto "made in Elkart" vuol dire che sono state fatte ad Abilene
ciao
L'autore della "bibbia" non ha tempo di tenerla aggiornata e poi le "bibbie" son belle da confutare: citando solo un paio di suoi post, leggi un po' cosa egli stesso scrive in vari forum di trombe e tromboni
http://www.trumpetherald.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=85616http://tromboneforum.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=a982be62f5f2ca85912a8366a916b0a2&topic=20150.0;prev_next=next#newAncora citazioni da thetromboneforum, le storie della Olds e la Conn si intrecciano:
"There's a bit of conjecture behind the dates I provided, but also quite a bit of fact.
Dr. Margaret Downie Banks of the University of South Dakota has done a great deal of research on the Conn Company. She has a short history of Conn posted at
http://www.usd.edu/~mbanks/CONTENT.html. In this work, she notes that Leland Greenleaf sold Conn to CCM in April 1969 to avoid a hostile takeover. At the time of this sale, Conn was manufacturing instruments in Elkhart. CCM ran the company in the 1970s and sold it to Daniel Henkin in 1980. Dr. Banks notes that the Henkin purchase included all Conn operating units including the Conn Brasswind Co. of Abilene, Texas, so Conn was definitely building horns in Abilene by 1980. Henkin sold Conn and King to a Swedish investment group in October 1985. UMI was formed in late 1985 and closed the Abilene plant in 1986, moving production to the former King plant in Eastlake, Ohio.
My 88H came with factory paperwork listing its final inspection date as September 17, 1970. I contacted Conn in the late 1970s to ask when and where my Conn instruments were built. Their detailed reply provided dates for the three Conn horns I then owned and a comment that all three had been built in the Elkhart plant, so I'm quite sure that Conn was still making horns in Elkhart in late 1970.
At this point, I offer my conjecture on Conn's history in the early 1970s, in the hopes that someone can provide hard facts to back it up. The Chicago Musical Instrument Company acquired F.E. Olds and F.A. Reynolds in the early 1960s. Reynolds had opened a plant in Abilene in 1954 that had never been able to compete on quality with Conn, King or Olds. The Olds plant in Fullerton, California was building consistently good products during the same time period. A note on the Olds Central site at
http://rouses.net/trumpet/nrowe.htm states that Olds produced parts for Reynolds instruments and shipped them to Abilene for assembly as late as 1971. I found another note on the Web -- for which I can't find the URL right now -- that stated that CMI consolidated Olds and Reynolds manufacturing at the Olds Fullerton plant in 1972 and closed the Abilene plant. It seems likely to me that CCM bought the Reynolds plant from CMI in 1972 and moved Conn's professional brasswind production there in late 1972 or early 1973. The availability of a vacant brasswind plant would be a pretty compelling reason for CCM to choose Abilene over dozens of other potential plant locations."
Ad ogni modo, io ho avuto una 38B della serie "P" made in Elkhart (hanno saltato la "O" per non confonderla con zero) e non era niente male...sigh me la rubarono.
Per chi fosse interessato alla storia della Conn vi ribadisco il link visto sopra,
http://www.usd.edu/~mbanks/CONTENT.html Ciao