the elephant wrote: ↑Mon May 10, 2021 9:56 amI'm not interested in Martins.
Doc wrote: ↑Mon May 10, 2021 1:07 pmIf you were, you could find one that (intonation-wise) plays circles around a 2XJ. But that is not the point of this thread.
Doc wrote: ↑Mon May 10, 2021 1:07 pmCan't be any worse than it already is.
These two are actually very good, even with all the damage.
The valves do not leak and appear to be just about new, meaning that the wimpy kids at that school defaulted to the recording bell, three-banger Kings that the band director kept trying to get me to take off her hands when I grabbed these two 24Js. (The market for a four-valved Conn is better than for a three-valved anything, in my personal experience.) The Kings were a lot newer but featured some shot-to-héll valves, badly bent slides, and crushed body branches. The Conns look pretty scarred up, with
awful leadpipes. (Four ferrules each!) The valves were
slightly damaged, but were restored to "like new" function after an hour with the Ferree's slugs and mandrels I bought for these valves. (I work on a lot of these short stroke valves, so I bought the tools to make life easier.)