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Re: Saxophone or clarinet

Author: Mark Pinner
Date: 2003-03-29 21:14

I will throw in a wild theory. The bore and bell diameter would make this a very small bored bass sax. The very long and fat gooseneck with spit key is a lot longer than any bass sax I have seen. It is only an assumption that the mouthpiece is the one intended or original. At some stage Orsi and others have manufactured and instrument called a Rothphone. It is essentially a saxophone of very narrow bore that is played with a double reed. The gooseneck on this example looks like it takes a bass sax mouthpiece. It is extremely out of proportion to the body and maybe an adaption/replacement to take a single reed mouthpiece rather than a double reed. Orsi make or will make all sorts of instruments such as Sarrusophones which again are a double reed contraption somewhere between a bassoon and a saxophone. Orsi/LA Sax bass saxes are bigger in bore than this example and have a proportionate gooseneck. I am willing to bet that that neck is not the original fitted to the instrument.

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