Author: vboboe
Date: 2005-11-13 00:46
interesting, you might like to know ... have done a little bit of research since this post and ran across some metal oboes which are called sarrusophones, and they come in various sizes, the smallest piccolo in F, the sopranino E-flat, and soprano C are straight tubes, whereas the larger ones are curled up like a horn. The soprano looks just like an oboe, only of course it's metal, and not all sizes have big bulbous bells, so ...
... wonder if this ebay find was technically a soprano sarrusophone?
If not, bit unclear if there's a diff between 'metal oboe' and 'sarrusophone', enlightening comments, anyone?
The small (narrow) pipe sarrusophone (very reedy thin tone) was mostly made by Conn and Buffet, whereas large (wide) pipe (mellower tone) sarrusphone was made by Gautrot. Didn't find anything in that particular reference to Moennig, research continues ...
... also ran across info about happy find on ebay of a heckelphone (8ve lower than oboe) snapped up by Arthur Grossman, bassoon prof U. Washington. Apparently wider bore makes it sound louder than the 'reedier' bass oboe, so there's an instrument one probably doesn't play in small spaces between neighbours houses !
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