With US RVG’s?  (Or Japanese RVG’s?) Asking, because — and I could easily be misremembering — but I thought(?) the Conns and US RVG’s were entirely exclusive of each other (meaning a Venn diagram of Conns, and RVG’s… would result in no overlap). Were any Conns ever re-issued as US Conns?

Conductor who championed period instruments and called vibrato a ‘modern drug’.

You're right.  I had blessedly blocked that one from my memory!

I bought all the Conns, but replaced many of them with RVG's.

A quote from composer Hanns Eisler: " Wer nur von Musik etwas versteht, versteht auch von Musik nichts." 😉