Model:

8D

Serial Number:

959545

Year:

1961

Manufactured in:

Elkhart, IN Abilene, TX Eastlake, OH

*Lacquered:

Yes No

*Serial Number
Location:

Lever Bridge
Change Valve Casing
Other

*Change Valve:

Mechanical
String
Converted
       to String

C.G.Conn LTD, Elkhart, IND, USA
C.G.Conn LTD, USA (No reference to Elkhart)
Conn 8D
Other, please specify:

Fixed
Factory Screw Bell
Screw Bell Conversion

Horn has the following
(Check all that apply):

Metal Hand Guard
Finger Hook

Music Lyre Holder
Oil Hole

Bb First Valve Slide:

Straight
"Sock Foot"

*2nd Valve Pull Ring:

Round
Flat
Oval

Change Rotor is:

Tapered
Cylinderical

2nd Rotor is:

Tapered
Cylindrical

Venturi Diameter:

Venturi Depth:

Change Rotor
Top Diameter:

Change Rotor
Bottom Diameter:

2nd Rotor
Top Diameter:

2nd Rotor
Bottom Diameter:

Cylinderical Tube ID:

Cylinderical Tube
Thickness:

Branch OD at
Change Rotor:

Branch OD at
Bell Tail Ferrule:

Bell Tail OD
at Branch:

Bell Flare
Outside Diameter:

Bell Flare Seam
Circumference:

"

Horn Weight:

Bell Flare Thickness
at Edge:

Custom modifications:

Mechanical thumbvalve linkage intact, but Walter Lawson replaced one metal piece in the linkage with a plastic replacement to cut down on the clanking in 1975. Valves were replated by Lawson at the same time. Original bell patched and cut in 1976 by Richard Merewether at Paxman's. Original leadpipe replaced by a Lawson FB 114.125 by Walter Lawson in 1977. Original bell replaced in 1982 with a Holton-Lawson prototype bell, made by Walter Lawson in 1972, and used by Robert Pierce, Principal Horn of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra until his retirement in 1981. Bell cut to accommodate the Paxman ring on the horn. A second bell, a Lawson Ambronze, made in 1980, was fitted to the Paxman ring in 2016, to allow alternate use with the Nickel-Silver Holton-Lawson bell.