G. C. Conn New Wonder Series II 1927 Silver Immaculate silver plate . Fully serviced and regulated . Best sound

Conn New Wonder II 1927. Immaculate silver plate. Fully serviced and regulated.One of the best sounding soprano models ever made. Beautiful tone and is in amazing condition.

• The New Wonder II soprano is considered one of the best sounding ever made, offering a "haunting," "sweet, warm, lush and lyrical" sound. They are capable of high volume and presence, often favoured by jazz and dance band musicians of the era.
• Design Features: 1927 models typically feature rolled tone holes—which help prolong pad life—and a soldered-on, sometimes gold-washed, bell interior. These horns often feature a round thumb ring rather than a rest, and require a skilful, flexible approach to intonation compared to modern horns.

If you're looking to blend with a modern section or want something sleek and contemporary that plays in tune easily, this might not be your horn. But if you're a soloist who plays mostly New Orleans style or small combo straight ahead jazz, and you're looking for a horn that gives you all kinds of tonal options, layers, depth, and personality, and if you are lucky enough to be able to get your hands on one of these, you might have just found your Stradivarius. They simply don't make them like this anymore, and when you hold one, you have in your hands a horn that Sidney Bechet also played, and that harkens back to an era when jazz reigned supreme, and the American instrument-making business was second to none when it came to saxophones. To hold it is hold history, and you can feel it when you play one.