[Dixielandjazz] Bechet on clarinet

[rahberry at comcast.net]

Pete Main, reed player with Devil Mountain JB, Ted Shafer's Jelly Roll JB, and others, plays a sarrusophone at times.
Sometimes, in the same band, Glen Calkins will play his ophicleide.  
Indescribable!


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Paul Edgerton" <paul.edgerton at gmail.com>
> A sarrusophone is an obsolete woodwind instrument with a brass body
> having small conical bore and saxophone-like keywork which uses a
> double reed rather than a single reed mouthpiece. It was conceived as
> a family of Bb and Eb instruments and intended to replace the oboe and
> bassoon in military and other outdoor ensembles. The only one that had
> any wide commercial support was the EEb contrabass sarrusophone, and
> that is the one Sidney Bechet used on his famous one-man-band
> recording.
> 
> [hint: use Google]
> 
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