Conn New Wonder 128xxx Rolled Tone Hole Bass Saxophone

For sale is a beautiful Conn New Wonder silver plated Bb bass saxophone! This is a prime golden era Conn serial #128,xxx with glorious drawn rolled tone holes! Conn made the best bass saxophones ever produced that are now highly sought after pieces.  In particular these drawn rolled tone hole bass saxophones are some of the coolest, most desirable and collectible vintage horns out there. Early era Conn Bass saxophones have straight tone holes, then later the rolled tone holes were introduced, however when initially introduced they were only soldered onto the body.  Those said soldered rolled tone holes were soft soldered onto the body.  Being soft solder only has a 90 year old or so shelf life and all of those horns are now 100+ years old they are deteriorating creating leak points and problems.  The final transformation was drawn rolled tone holes which were actually drawn and pulled directly from the body it self.  The body is 1x total rock solid piece of heavy metal with the rolled