Now we get to the big boys of the Pan American series. Speaking on Mercedes-style key guards, you also notice that feature being shown on the 50M-the C melody.Įb baritone and Bb bass Pan American saxophones (You’ll see that the alto I played has a Mercedes-style key guard on its low C key.) If you would like to see photos of the horn in question, you can find them in my Pan American gallery.
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I can attest to the fact that this particular Pan American alto was just as well made as many pro horns of the day. ”Īlthough easily dismissed as pure advertising hype, I happen to have seen and played one of these babies that was in very fine shape. Notice that the tenor has the Mercedes-style key guard on the low C key that we commonly associate with Conn.Įb alto and C melody Pan American saxophones 8, 1914, 1119954, while the Pan American one was: Sept 14, 1915, 1153489.īb curved and straight soprano, as well as tenor Pan American saxophones If you are interested in comparing the patents, the Conn patent was: Dec.
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These patent numbers are usually stamped just above the serial number. The patent numbers on Conn and Pan American saxophones is different.Pan American had their own patents, trademarks, catalogs, models and dealer structure. According to Kurt, the fellow who has been doing an immense amount of research into the Pan American brand:.Source: The Pan American Section of the Conn Loyalist Around 1955 Conn started producing student instruments under the Conn brand name and Pan American disappeared. It was started in the early 1920’s and produced more affordable instruments than the regular Conn line, geared towards students. The Pan American band instrument company was a subsidiary of Conn.
The Conn Loyalist website describes the company like this: Rather, Pan American saxophones were a second line produced by a subsidiary of Conn. Let’s just do a bit of a re-cap of what Pan American was and wasn’t, before taking a look at what the company offered up in the saxophone department. While the first article included all the Martin saxophones, this one features the Pan American saxophones for sale in 1931. As promised, this is the second instalment of the saxophone pages from the 1931 catalogue from the Chicago Musical Instrument Co.
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