Saturday, July 27, 2013

Ladies and Gentlemen the Conn Wonderphone...


Here's my new horn. It's a gift from Miguel and I guess Mary also since they are married. Miguel bought this horn, the Conn Wonderphone Model from the Good Will auction pages. Good Will has a nice little ebay type thing going on with lots of funky instruments sold dirt cheap. I try to stay away from there since I have a bunch of cheap funky instruments already but I do thank and welcome gifts such as these. 

Looks like this model was made by Conn between 1938 and 1971. I think Miguel gave $20 bucks for it. It plays great. I did have to buy a mouth piece. I bought a Kelly made in USA Lexan mouthpiece for $26 bucks. I chose gold sparkle but there were others such as fire read, neon pink and so on. I though the gold would go with the horn. Not much more fun with this little amount of  trouble can be had for $46 bucks. 

So how does it sound? Click here. It's me playing the horn with overdubbed baritone uke. Somehow I ended up with two short sections but I like it.  Posted by Picasa

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