Conn 30M Tenor Near Mint Original with Matt Stohrer Overhaul!

Description

This is among the nicest 30M’s that I have seen. It came in with original pads from almost 75 years ago, and after a full overhaul, it turned out to be an excellent player. There is nothing like a Conn 30M for beauty, build quality, and a big, powerful Jazz Era tone. And despite what you may think, the keywork on a 10M/30M is actually very fast when properly setup. In my opinion, if you can get a nice vintage Conn to play, you should.

If you have been looking for the best Conn tenor possible, look no further. This horn has an $1850 overhaul by Matt Stohrer. Expensive overhaul? Not really, when you figure that a 30M takes 50% longer to do, and Matt is one of the few people willing to take the time to make these amazing saxophone actually right. The overhaul represents at least 35 hours of hands-on time fixing every part of the horn to make it as good as possible.

The 30M Connqueror is the most deluxe full-featured saxophone Conn ever made, and one of the most deluxe ever made period. The way the mechanism works, if you set it up correctly once, then it is set for your entire lifetime. All the adjustments are built into the horn, and are not compressible materials that wear out. All you have to do is swap the occasional pad, and you are all set to keep playing. It makes maintenance and repair easy.

This is a horn that should satisfy most anyone – collectibility wise, it is about as good as it gets – deluxe engraving, solid silver key touches, deluxe keywork (I love that neck octave key), limited numbers of these horns made. (My estimate is somewhere around 1500 tenors assuming generously that one in ten prewar Conn tenors was a 30M.) And this one is in exceptionally fine original condition, with original lacquer almost all there, no resolders, no past repairs, no damage to neck, bell, or body tube. These horns have often sold off of my wait list in the past, and this is one of the only times that one made it to the actual site. It includes a new BAM case as well.

Only one available!