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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 2005-06-28 01:50
French ligature manufacturer Francois Louis developed a new wind instrument:two sop saxes played by one player.
http://www.aulochrome.com/
At first I thought this is a joke but they seem serious. Does anybody try this? I guess it needs a big mouth to bite two mouthpieces.
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Author: David Peacham
Date: 2005-06-28 09:37
But will the unions negotiate a doubler's rate for playing it?
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If there are so many people on this board unwilling or unable to have a civil and balanced discussion about important issues, then I shan't bother to post here any more.
To the great relief of many of you, no doubt.
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2005-06-28 13:57
Twice the annoyance value of a single soprano saxophone, in one convenient package! Can't wait to hear Kenny-Kenny G-G play one (or is it two?). Next Weapon of Musical Destruction (WMD) to be invented: the Double Eeefer.
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2005-06-28 14:12
In the US Patent Office, there was [still is?] a subclass to Class 84 , Musical Instruments, entitled Duplex, into which "doubled/tripled" insts. are classified. I have an old, cheap double recorder-type [?name?] and have seen a pat on a combo of a sop AND tenor sax !! Will look up its #. Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: saxlite
Date: 2005-06-28 14:17
Yikes! A double eefer! The thought of it gives me the willies! I do more than enough damage with my single eefer. Anyone got a decent eefer for sale?
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Author: William
Date: 2005-06-28 15:16
"decent eefer" (oxymoron????)
BTW, in the town where I spent my first year as a public school band director, there was this amazing saxophonist who played a repretoire of big band literature on three saxs at one time--two altos and a tenor. I seem to remember that he played the top keys of his altos with his hands, had some extra alto notes connected from the "top" alto to his waist so that those keys would play as he moved farther away and controlled the tenor with strings atached to his feet. The saxes were all mounted on a stationary stand and all three mouthpieces were stuffed in his mouth at one time--definately an "all lip" embouchure. It was quite a sight to watch one of his performances and he actually sounded pretty good--especially with bass and drum set. When he wasn't "tripling", he (Les Litz, Wautoma, WI 1966) was quite a good (solo) sax "big band" style player and volunteered many hours mentoring the sax section of my high school jazz ensemble.
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Author: Ron Jr.
Date: 2005-06-28 15:21
I also wonder why they wouldnt/couldn't use a single mouthpiece.
Naturally I'm very curious about the sound.
About 4 months ago NPR had a radio interview with a guy (I forgot his name) who created all kinds of clarinets. One clarinet used a flute like mouthpiece. And I even think he created a type of Aulus double pipe clarinet. It sounded like two clarinets playing duets with a very limited range.
It's great to see that the acoustical music world still has the Denner spark of invention.
Ron Jr.
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2005-06-28 15:42
Ron - It certainly is innovation, if not invention [which to me, requires being "patentable", novel, useful, and "unobvious", at least to the patent examiner !]. Looked in that great list, JJM, vunderbahr !, also to Wm's story. The "Combined Soprano/Tenor Sax" pat # is 4,341,146 and I believe there are more in the USPTO "Archives", 84/381 et al. Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: 3dogmom
Date: 2005-06-29 20:22
John Moses,
Thank you so much for the link to that great website. I can't wait to get back to school and share it with my students. That contrabass sax was great!
Sue Tansey
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2005-06-29 20:41
For lots of contrabass saxophone music (and other good, clean fun) check out The Nuclear Whales Saxophone Orchestra:
http://www.nuclearwhales.com/
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Author: archer1960
Date: 2005-06-29 20:48
If it's an octave below the bass clarinet, that contrabass sax must in the same range as the contrabass clarinet?
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