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It’s clearly a fully featured and functional Martin, although it carries the name ‘Concertone’. Most were sold for parlour music at home. Instruments in concert pitch have the advantage of not forcing the player to transpose, so a C Melody player can lean over a pianist and read the melody easily. The saxophone market boomed from 1920 onwards, spurring hundreds of thousands to take it up in America. They are slightly smaller (perhaps an inch) than a tenor saxophone whose C is pitched as Bb and a lot smaller than an Alto, which of course is pitched in a higher Eb. However I was attracted to owning a Martin, even if only a ‘stencil’.Ĭ Melody saxophones are pitched with the C as middle C.
I know I already had my Conn C Melody at the time. I know I already had quite a collection and believe I bought it from Magginisupplies before having it repadded by my favourite saxophone technician. I use it as a spare and when camping.I can’t really remember too much about acquiring this horn. The tone is almost as good as the Buffet, though - without entering into mysticism, and without a spectrum analyzer I can say no more about the sound quality. The keywork and intonation are decidedly inferior. Personally, I like mine, but not as well as my pre-R13 Buffet. I have heard various claims about their desirability as collector items, but the Museum could shed no light on this point.
The experiment failed failed, possibly without good reason. In summary, these 'rosewood' look Pan American clarinets were a brief post war experiment in producing wood laminate clarinets with the durability of plastic (resonite) and an attractive finish. I find this striking because I had been informed by a instrument salesman familiar with the line that they had been guaranteed never to crack!
As a consequence of this bad reputation the line eventually died. They would have probably been successful but a bad batch of wood was used and they got a reputation for cracking.
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Records were destroyed so no serial number information is available. They were manufactured from 1947 until 1949 or 1950. Production started soon after WWII as Conn got it's instrument lines running. I contacted the museum, and was told the following: The instruments in question are actually 'Violin Finish' clarinets manufactured for the Conn Pan American student line. I was referred to the Shrine to Music Museum (anyone heard of this museum? Their phone number is 60).
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The Conn serial numbers on are not relevant to Pan American clarinets, so it is not vintage 1926. I called UMI (Conn) in Elkhart, and the person in customer service told me they had NO SERIAL NUMBER lists for Pan Americans.
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