![]() ![]() This could help to correct the 12M’s intonation problems. Older baritones need mouthpieces that are much more open. I live in the Bay Area of California and have taken this horn to shops more often then I’ve bought reeds for it. Part of the instrument’s fault is that Conn installed the octave mechanism on the neck, which modern makers do not do. Like Billie Holiday if she couldn’t pronounce the letters A, T, R and B. ![]() Don’t even think about trying to contradict me because I know and have lived the following facts: But – no one, NO ONE including this forum, the Vintage Sax Guide, Saxquest – there is no online repository of information on the horn that will disclose what I am about to tell you – I know because I read them all before buying it. The Conn 12M baritone has a big beautiful fat sound. There are fewer then 12 people on the planet who know the answer to this question. (Anyone considering the purchase of one of these horns listen up! Before bad things happen to us in life, we almost always are warned. Serial number 260-xxx – a transitional model. I can download a photograph of the northern hemisphere of Mars faster than I can find an answer to my question.
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