[Dixielandjazz] Double-Belled Euphonium & Safrrusophone

[James O'Briant]

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