[Dixielandjazz] Bechet's sarrusophone

[David Richoux]

If you want to go crazy figuring out wind instruments of the 1800s,  
take a look at this!

http://mfm.uni-leipzig.de/_dt/img/5071_Instrument_de_musique_g.jpg

http://tinyurl.com/2ere6q

(from the Contrabass list...)

Dave Richoux

On Nov 16, 2007, at 9:01 AM, James O'Briant wrote:

> Brian Wood wrote:
>
>> I do not think there is any question that a sarrusophone is a
>> double-reeded instrument. In fact the sarrusophone was unique in
>> double-reeded instruments.
>
> True, it was designed as a double-reed instrument, but it's also  
> playable
> with a single reed on a Soprano Sax mouthpiece.
>
>> Unlike the oboe or bassoon which have a parallel bore, the
>> sarrusophone, a brass  instrument, is conically-bored like a
>> saxophone. It seems that its inventor  in 1856, a man called Sarrus
>> (!), ...
>
> Mr. Sarrus didn't invent the Sarrusophone. It was invented by  
> Pierre-Louis
> Gautrot, the owner of the instrument manufacturing company that  
> bore his
> name, and which evolved into Couesnon.  The instrument was named after
> French bandmaster Pierre-Auguste Sarrus,  Sarrus originated the  
> concept of a
> family of metal, conical-bore double-reed instruments.  But Gautrot  
> was the
> one who turned the concept into reality.
>
> Jim O'Briant
> Gilroy, CA
> Tuba & Leader, The Zinfandel Stompers
>
>