This is a 'modern' horn in all common design respects related to the term.offset lower stack, right hinged pinky table, redesigned palmkeys, etc. The 25M was it's top-shelf cousin, and I have yet to have a 25M on my bench although it appears to be a 24M with a few more bells and whistles. So it was the student/second shelf Conn model of the time. No particular pedigree relationship to the earlier models, UMI went with a redesign on most of their horns, some based off of a Keilweth model which Armstrong had knocked off in the 80's. This is the 24M, which was the model which came after the 18M/20M produced under Danny Henkin's reign as head of Conn/King/Armstrong/Artley from '80-'84.those models having replaced the Shooting Star 50M's of the 60's and 70's. And post Mexico Conn models, complete redesigns from their Elkhart predecessors, rarely get any "air time", although in their day they apparently sold pretty well and competed in the US market with the Yamahas and Selmer USA's. Just wanted to share this for posterity sake, this is another model which will be somewhat obscure to most folks as it was a Conn produced in USA between '85-'03 or thereabouts, under UMI ownership.
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