Stephen Howard
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Sorting out another Conn 6M at the moment, and saw that I needed seven of those (useless) fiddly little lock screws.
Had kinda resigned myself to having to make them from scratch, which is never a fun job - but just on a whim I decided to have a shuffle through my various draws of 'Assorted and Miscellaneous Screws'.
Went through a handful of drawers and then pulled one out that was labelled 'Regulation Screws - Various'.
I found 346 of them!
No idea where they came from - they must have been part of a job lot of spares I bought from Boosey & Hawkes back in the '90s...though I'm not sure how the factory at Edgware would have ended up with them (don't think B&H had anything do with importing Conn horns). Maybe they're not actually Conn lock screws, but regulation screws from the Edgware flute range? Not that it matters because they're a straight fit in every way.
Had kinda resigned myself to having to make them from scratch, which is never a fun job - but just on a whim I decided to have a shuffle through my various draws of 'Assorted and Miscellaneous Screws'.
Went through a handful of drawers and then pulled one out that was labelled 'Regulation Screws - Various'.
I found 346 of them!
No idea where they came from - they must have been part of a job lot of spares I bought from Boosey & Hawkes back in the '90s...though I'm not sure how the factory at Edgware would have ended up with them (don't think B&H had anything do with importing Conn horns). Maybe they're not actually Conn lock screws, but regulation screws from the Edgware flute range? Not that it matters because they're a straight fit in every way.