Conn 18B C/Bb/A Gold and Satin Silver Trumpet RARE AND MINT!

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For sale is an amazing collector's Conn 18B C/Bb/A trumpet! This horn is in amazing shape for an instrument made in 1925. Features a satin silver finish with a bell plated inside and out with gold, one-of-a-kind engraving, and gold plated ferrules on each valve slide. Spit valves are gold plated as well. The trumpet plays extremely well in all keys, especially in C, where it feels very free blowing and not stuffy. Intonation in C, Bb, and A is very good and up to modern standards, with excellent slotting in all ranges. No compression loss on the main valves nor in the rotary change valve that switches from Bb to A.
Overall, the condition of the instrument and all of its parts are excellent! Very little silver or gold plating loss, truly a museum quality instrument. Only flaw are a few surface scratches and a well-made patch on the C second valve slide. Recently received an ultrasonic cleaning with new felts and corks.
The instrument comes with all of its original accessories: two sets of slides, the original case WITH keys, Cornet shank adaptor, a screwdriver that fits the rotary valve, lyre, lead pipe tuning rod, gold plated pixie/straight mute, and two mouthpieces (labeled Conn Symphony and Opera). Many of these accessories are plated in gold to match the instrument.
Here is more info on the 18B model from the Conn Loyalist website:
Other than the convenient extra slides this instrument lacks a feature seen on all trumpets these days: a pinky ring for the right hand. It didn't come off some time over the years.... it was never there in the first place. This was quite common in the 20's. The 18B is low pitch, the 19B is the high pitch variant. I have learned that the 18B is a "duo bore" instrument: the bore on the main tuning slide is 0.406" ("#0 bore") going into the main tuning slide and 0.438" coming out (#1 bore). The First valve slide is 0.438" (#1 bore), second valve slide unknown, the third valve slide is 0.480" on top and 0.438" on bottom.
What Conn said:
Like the Vocal Cornet, the C, Bb and A trumpet is in every sense of the word a utility instrument. It is a real trumpet, having a properly graduated bore which has been ingeniously arranged so that the introduction of the tuning slides does not interfere with the quality of the tone, and consequently it offers the real trumpet tone for which all C.G.Conn trumpets are famous. When in C this instrument can be for playing vocal, piano or violin parts without transposition, and when in Bb or A it becomes almost indentical to the 22B Symphony trumpet, having the same bore.
The instrument has a 4½" bell, weighs 2¼ lbs. and is 18½" long.