Klarinet Archive - Posting 000968.txt from 1998/04

From: merlinw@-----.ca
Subj: Re: Sopranino saxophone
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 19:19:32 -0400

On 04/17/98 08:57:41 you wrote:
>
>Yanagisawa make an E flat sopranino sax. SO may others.
>Is there really a b flat sopranino, though?

Selmer also makes an Eb sopranino. At one time, King, Conn and Buescher did as well.

There is a one-of-a-kind SOPRANINISSIMO in Bb that plays an octave above the Bb soprano. It was last featured in Paul Cohen's "Vintage Saxophones Revisited" column in Saxophone Journal in the Nov/Dec 1996 issue. According to the article, this instrument was made in the '60's by Robert Vanlithout in Brussels. The sopraninissimo is curved (!) and stands a touch over 7 inches tall.

Check out the SJ back issue if you want to find out more.

NOW, LET'S GET BACK TO DISCUSSING THE "BLACK WAND OF DEATH"
(Oops, I meant to say "Clarinet"!)<G>

Merlin Williams
merlinw@-----.ca
http://www.netcom.ca/~merlinw
(A member of the Sax Ring!)