The 4D was also a single horn with F, Eb and D slides. Production ended in 1929 when the rotary value 4D was introduced. The first Conn French horns were produced in about 1913, including a “low pitch” piston valve model called the 2D and a corresponding “high pitch” 3D model, both single horns complete with tuning slides in F, Eb and D. While Conn, now part of Conn-Selmer company, has undergone many ownership changes, its key French horn models, the 6D and 8D, are still widely used today. Standard mouthpieces caused him too much discomfort, so he invented a rubber rim in 1875 he called “an elastic face.” This entrepreneurial acumen quickly extended to a full range of band instruments, business partnerships and a series of factories (several destroyed by fires) in Elkhart Indiana. ![]() Charles Gerard Conn, a cornet-playing civil war veteran born in 1844, was inspired to enter the instrument business after a lip injury - allegedly resulting from a bar brawl.
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