A Brief History of the Conn Company (1874-present)*

by Margaret Downie Banks, Ph.D.
Senior Curator of Musical Instruments
National Music Museum
Vermillion, South Dakota

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*Excerpted and updated from Elkhart's Brass Roots: An Exhibition to Commemorate the 150th Anniversary of C. G. Conn's Birth and the 120th Anniversary of the Conn Company by Margaret Downie Banks (Vermillion, South Dakota: The Shrine to Music Museum, 1994).

Book-in-progress

The book, A Comprehensive History of the Conn Company (1874-present) and a Biography of its Founder, Charles Gerard Conn (1844-1931), is currently in preparation by Dr. Margaret Downie Banks.

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