In 1878, theĬompany patented a cornet which was able to play in the keys of Eb, C, Bb and A Important products during their short three-year partnership. Proved to be very profitable for Conn-Dupont. In c1910 was the "New Invention" line of instruments.ĭupont had experience with patents when he worked for DISTIN in England. The new line that temporarily replaced the "Wonder" instruments They were produced until c1910, when the Elkhart plant burned on 22 Mayġ910. Workers producing "Conn Wonder" instruments (Waterhouse 1993, 70). Inġ877, the Conn-Dupont company expanded to a three story building, used (1832-1881), a French instrument maker previously employed by Henry Distin. In 1876, he established a partnership with Eugene Victor Jean Baptiste Dupont Shortly after he commenced his study of theĬornet, he toured with Haverly’s Minstrels. He was obliged to do so as a result of an accident at the zincĬollar-pad factory (Banks 1994, 1). Conn was twenty-seven years of age in 1871 when he started playing Silverware engraver and plater, zinc collar-pad maker (for horses), and rubber In 1869, he was marriedĪnd had jobs as a sewing machine salesman, heath-care product salesman, Instruments, he fought in the Civil War as a soldier. Mouthpiece was patented in 1875 as a "rubber cushion" brass mouthpieceĪnd was Conn’s first product (US #160164). This company began as an outgrowth of a rubber-rimmed mouthpiece developed byĬharles Gerard Conn ( b Phelps, NY d SouthernĬalifornia ) in 1874 to alleviate the pain of a punched lip.
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