[Dixielandjazz] Double-Belled Euphonium & Safrrusophone

James O'Briant jobriant at garlic.com
Mon Feb 19 18:53:06 PST 2007


Tom Wiggins wrote, in part: 

> ... they also featured their reed player 
> Pete Main on a Sarusaphone solo that has to be 
> the gawd auwfullest sounding instrument I 
> have heard in a long time.   Not Pete's 
> playing but the sound of the instrument 
> which must have been the early prototype for a 
> Bari sax.  

Actually, the Eb Contrabass Sarrusophone was developed with the intent that
it would replace the Bassoon in marching bands.  

Jim O'Briant
Tuba
Gilroy, CA




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