Vintage Conn 40A Vocabell Long Cornet

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Vintage Conn 40A Vocabell Long Cornet

This Vintage Conn 40A Vocabell Long Cornet in raw brass from 1936 has a rimless bell, 10 sided valve cases and art deco engraving and plays really well. It has a patch on the second valve slide and the main tuning slide as can be seen in the photos.

What Conn said in 1933 about the Vocabell:
Although built in medium bore, this cornet has all the power and breadth of tone found in a larger bore because of the Vocabell. This new principle bell vibrates freely and and in sympathy with the vibrating column of air in the instrument and consequently the tone is purer, clearer and easier to produce than the tone in an instrument with the conventional bell. Delicate broadcasting instruments in the Columbia Broadcasting System Studios show the Vocabell to be superior in all respects to the instrument with the conventional bell with a wire in the rim. The volume is from 12 to 15 decibels greater, the scale is smoother and more even throughout and the tone is clearer and purer. Used by B.A. Rolfe, great cornet virtuoso and radio impressario, and other national stars. Masterpiece, both musically and in modern appearance. Bb and A, springs in bottom of valves.