So you don’t have to do much googling to find out that people really rate these horns, far more so than some of the subsequent student Conn lines, these Pan Americas have become somewhat of a collectors item and often referred to as the ‘poor man’s 10M’…! From what I can find out this model produced in 1952 dubbed the 60M is essentially a 10M body with budget keywork (“of course, the grub screws on the pillars…. Pan-America was a student line of horns made by Conn from 1920 right through until the mid 50s. This is the first one I've encountered to be honest, but I’ve heard some good things about them, (If I’m not mistaken I think Alex Garnett plays one!?) To be honest, I wasn’t 100% sure what this was at first, some of the keywork reminded me of ‘The Martin’ but the key-guards and some of the smaller details stank of Conn, after a bit of squinting I made out ‘Pan-America’ on the bell.
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