Klarinet Archive - Posting 000543.txt from 1997/02

From: David Lechner <dlechner@-----.NET>
Subj: single reed oboe
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 08:13:05 -0500

Another example of this sort of thing was the contrabass sarrusophone
which Conn manufactured early in this century as the contrabass voice of
Conn's family of saxophones. The sarrusophone is to double reeds a bit
like saxophones to the clarinet family (though in the former case _both_
overblow the octave ...) In any case, the sarrusophone is/was a conical
bore brass double reed instrument invented in France a few years after the
saxophone. When Conn produced its sarrusophone (though others were
promised they only ever produced the contrabass) they provided an optional
single reed mouthpiece about the size of a soprano saxophone mouthpiece
with a small hole in the end wherein to insert the sarrusophone's bocal.
Otherwise, the normal double reed could be fitted to the bocal.

--David Lechner

   
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