
	Where results make sense

Topic: Sarrusophone

Related Topics

Tarogato

Tubax

Recorder flute

Woodwind

Crumhorn

Shawm

List of musical instruments

Nose flute

Trombone

Shakuhachi

Washtub bass

Bagpipes

Ocarina

Trumpet

Biwa

In the News (Tue 1 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Sarrusophone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		All members of the sarrusophone are made of metal, with a conical bore, and the larger members of the family resemble the ophicleide in shape.
		The fingering of the sarrusophone is nearly identical as that of the saxophone.
		It appears that higher members of the sarrusophone family were not as popular as the lower members, with the sopranino in Eb along with its distant cousin, the high Eb oboe, being particularly rare.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sarrusophone (1767 words)

	Sarrusophones
		The Sarrusophone was invented in the mid 1800's by Gautrot to compete with the Saxophone, for use in military bands to bolster or replace oboes and bassoons.
		The Eb appears to be the most common contrabass sarrusophone (if not the most common sarrusophone of any size), while the C contrabass appears to have been intended as a substitute for the contrabassoon (which was much less satisfactory in the mid-1800's).
		The soprano sarrusophone is straight: all lower sarrusophones have at least one bend, and are configured so that the bell points upward (as on a bassoon).
	www.contrabass.com /pages/sarrus.html (1799 words)

	The Sarrusophone
		The sarrusophone was invented in 1856 by Monsieur Sarrus, a band leader for the French 13th Regiment of the line.
		The sarrusophone family originally consisted of nine instruments of varying size (table 1), all of which (except for the contrabass in C) are transposing instruments with tessitura notated as B-flat/G3.
		Immediately after its invention, the sarrusophone enjoyed a brief surge of popularity; it is known that there were even bands such as the Fanfare la Sirene of Paris (1925) formed solely of the variously-sized instruments.
	www.idrs.org /publications/dr/DR8.2/DR8_2Joli.html (1071 words)

	Orchestration: Contrabass Sarrusophone
		The contrabass sarrusophone is found in three different sizes, Eb, C, and Bb.
		The contrabass sarrusophone has a practical (useable) range that parallels the saxophone, from written low Bb (below middle C) to high F (above the treble staff).
		The Bb bass sarrusophone has the same written range (to low Bb, up to altissimo G or A), and sounds the same range as the bass saxophone (down to concert Ab below the bass staff).
	www.contrabass.com /pages/orch-cbsr.html (769 words)

	Dave's Blog
		The instrument is sarrusophone, which may sound like something from a Dr. Seuss book, but is actually a 19th-century French crossbreeding of the saxophone and the bassoon.
		The sarrusophone was the work of French inventor Pierre-Louis Gautrot, who got the idea from Pierre Sarrus, a French army band conductor.
		According to Plsek, the sarrusophone was one of those saxophone mutations that never made it and have nearly vanished.
	www.owczarek.com /2004.07.18_arch.html (1837 words)

	Sarrusophone
		It is made of metal, resembles a bassoon in shape, and is played with a double-reed[?].
		The sarrusophone is rarely called for in classical music, a rare example being in Maurice Ravel's L'heure espagnol[?] (1907).
		A very unusual example of the sarrusophone in jazz is on the 1924 recording by Clarence Williams Blue 5 of "Mandy, Make Up Your Mind", with the sarrusophone played by Sidney Bechet.
	www.termsdefined.net /sa/sarrusophone.html (360 words)

	sarrusophone
		The Sarrusophone was employed by both European and AMerican bands.
		It was played in European orchestras, both as a substitute for the contrabassoon and as an instrument in its own right having won the approval of especially certain French composers.
		Prior to that we believe it was owned by the Shrine Gold Band of Charleston, WV, a band so-named as legend has it that this entire band was equipped with gold plated instruments.
	www.gorbysmusic.com /sarrusophone.asp (180 words)

	SARRUSOPHONE FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The tone quality of the sarrusophone and the need for a double reed may have contributed to it not becoming a standard member of the wind band.
		All members of the sarrusophone are made of metal, and the larger members of the family resemble the ophicleide in shape.
		As its method of fingering is nearly identical as that of the saxophone, Adolphe Sax, the inventor of the saxophone, filed and lost at least one lawsuit against Gautrot, claiming infringement upon his patent for the saxophone.
	www.witwib.com /sarrusophone (1568 words)

	oddwinds » Contrabass Sarrusophone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Contrabass sarrusophone (Category 1) refers to low sarrusophones in Eb, C, and Bb.
		Sarrusophone entry includes picture of Eb contrabass, with sound clip.
		SARRUSOPHONE it is incised on the outer side of the bell with a tower or castle hallmark, Triebert Brevete SGDG, Paris, a hallmark that looks like a monogram and the letters L.P. under it.
	oddwinds.wikispaces.com /Contrabass+Sarrusophone (651 words)

	Sarrusophones
		Sarrus, a French bandmaster, invented the Sarrusophone and had it constructed for him by P.L. Gautrot, Sr.
		It was patented in 1856 and is a unique instrument in that it is a brass instrument with conical bore and a double reed embouchure.
		The Sarrusophone is no longer made, but we at Oberloh Woodwind and Brass Works have become extremely proficient at restoring these fine instruments.
	www.oberloh.com /gallery/sarrus.htm (881 words)

	Responses to "The Sarrusophone"
		The contrabass sarrusophone in C was, in fact, specific- ally added to the sarrusophone family for orchestral use, just as there was once an alternate set of saxophones in C and F which were intend- ed for orchestral use.
		However, some sarrusophones continue to be played: it is interesting to note that con- trabass sarrusophone reeds are still listed in the catalog of the Jack Spratt Woodwind Shop, and the owner of the shop continues to receive occasional orders.
		The sarrusophone's direct competition was the saxophone, which had the advantages of being designed as a single reed instrument and of having been in- vented at an earlier date.
	idrs.colorado.edu /Publications/DR/DR9.1/DR9.1.Sarru.html (1529 words)

	Sarrusophone: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The sarrusophone is a transposing (A transposing instrument is a musical instrument whose music is written at a pitch different from that pitch...)
		The sarrusophone is rarely called for in classical music (Traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste)
		The sarrusophone is now obsolete and only used as a novelty upon occasions, Exception Handler: No article summary found.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /ref/sarrusophone (887 words)

	PM Woodwind Repair: Saxophone Repair,Used Saxophones,Selmer,Mark VI,Paul Maslin,Conn,Alto Saxophone,Tenor ...
		It was made by Conn in the early 1930s for a specific person, and is one of the rarest and most collectible sarrusophones ever produced.
		The gold plating on this sarrusophone is in excellent condition.
		This sarrusophone was just cleaned and adjusted here at PM Woodwind so it is in very good playing condition.
	www.pmwoodwind.com /instruments.cfm?c=1&instrumentid=459 (287 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sarrusophones were first designed by a Parisian bandmaster, Sarrus, who was inspired by the success of the saxophone created by Belgian inventor Adolphe Sax.
		Manufactured by Gautrot in 1856 (one of Sax's business competitors), sarrusophones are brass double reed instruments with a loud strong tone, created for use in military bands.
		In the United States, they are also featured by the Indianapolis Symphonic Band, which describes itself as "one of the few ensembles to own (and actually use on occasion) a contrabass sarrusophone" and the San Ramon Jazz Ensemble.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/arts/music/occidetalmusic/Musicalinstruments/Wind/Contrabass/Contrabass.htm (134 words)

	Jay C. Easton: Gallery of Woodwind Arcana
		The sarrusophone is essentially a metal bassoon, the design of which borrowed heavily from saxophone design.
		Like the saxophone, sarrusophones came in sizes from sopranino through contrabass, but only the contrabass became popular.
		Below is the University of Illinois band's sarrusophone section from 1942.
	www.jayeaston.com /galleries/Unusual_instruments/Unusual_p_rothphone.html (222 words)

	Printable Version on Encyclopedia.com
		SARRUSOPHONE [sarrusophone], brass keyed wind instrument, played with a double reed, thus a member of the oboe family.
		Invented in 1856 by Sarrus, a French bandmaster, it is made in several sizes and was once much used in French bands to replace the weaker-toned oboes and bassoons.
		Encyclopedia.com is a service of HighBeam Research, Inc.
	www.encyclopedia.com /printable.aspx?id=1E1:sarrusop (70 words)

	dance.net - Music Notes November Issue (1233934) - Read article: Ballet, Jazz, Modern, Hip Hop, Tap, Irish, Disco, ...
		The sarrusophones main use was in marching and military bands, it was practical for these sorts of groups as it was relatively compact because it didn’t have any mouthpieces or bells that stuck out sideways.
		The sarrusophone is a double reed instrument and depending on what sort you have they can play high to notes so low that they can almost be registered on a seismograph.
		The look of the sarrusophone is somewhere between a very long tuba and a trombone.
	www.dance.net /read.html?postid=1233934 (1604 words)

	History Snippet #26
		The very best story of all is told now and then by Henry Iba’s assistant athletic director, Harry Dolman, no mean man on the sarrusophone in his day with Boh’s band, and no mean story-teller either, by the way.
		Harry delights in telling of the time the band was on tour, back in the ‘30s, and left Shawnee for Edmond, where it was to appear at Central State.
		The bus drew into Edmond and Dolman discovered to his dismay that he had somehow left his sarrusophone in Shawnee.
	www.orgs.okstate.edu /kkp/snippet26.htm (725 words)

	Re: [Finale] OT -- Sarrusophone (was Bass Trom)
		Boehm did try to mess with the bassoon and create a more 'logical' group of fingerings for the instrument ---- which we bassoonists never accepted because of the inherent weight of his monster.
		Already the bassoon is heavy enough without all those extra kilos (pounds for the americans who still refuse to admit that dealing with pounds and inches are infinitely more complicated than kilos and centimeters.)But this was the sarrusophone NOT.
		It was also used by such people as Ravel and Berlioz (if memory serves me correctly) because the basson français didn't have near the power of the good ol' Heckel fagott, and to get the range of the bassoon with the woodwind orchestrations, the sarrusophone was sometimes employed, especially to replace the contrabassoon.
	www.mail-archive.com /finale@shsu.edu/msg09167.html (198 words)

	Sarrusophone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A wind instrument designed by Sarrus in 1856.
		The sarrusophone has a double reed similar to a bassoon or oboe, but is made of brass, and resembles the saxophone in fingering and range.
		The sarrusophone was mainly invented as a substitute for oboes and bassoons in military bands.
	www.music.vt.edu /musicdictionary/texts/Sarrusophone.html (48 words)

	Leander Band - Band Parent's Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Easily lost short sections of curved brass tubing, used along with the gooseneck, to adjust the position of the mouthpiece on a sousaphone.
		Long narrow curved section of metal tubing used to attach the reed to a bassoon or sarrusophone.
		Sarrus, M. French bandmaster, the forgotten and ignored inventor of the Sarrusophone.
	www.leanderband.com /band_parents_dictionary.htm (10473 words)

	Sarrusophone Fingering Charts - The Woodwind Fingering Guide
		Below is a list of all available fingering charts for sarrusophone.
		Each fingering chart is split up by acoustic octaves, whose ranges are notated and clickable.
		Sarrusophone Fingerings from the Bassoon Family Fingering Companion
	www.wfg.woodwind.org /sarrus (54 words)

	EARLY MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS - MUSIC TREASURES - ANTIQUE SARRUSOPHONES AND CONTRABASS A ANCHE FOR SALE - ...
		The Sarrusophones à méchanisme perfectionné Système Evette et Schaeffer are advertised in the 1907 catalog at about the same prices as the best saxophones of the same register; nevertheless, from 1919 to 1923 only forty-nine sarrusophones were manufactured, of which twentytwo were contrabasses in E-flat.
		A soprano sarrusophone by this maker is in the Smithonian museum # 210932.
		Contrabass Sarrusophone, bearing the original stamp: Gautrot Marguet, Brevete s.g.d.g., a Paris.
	home.comcast.net /~musictreasures/anticont.htm (350 words)

	Prizes and winners from past sax trivia contests
		When they did this, it sounded a little empty and they were not quite sure what they were hearing, so they did it again.
		By this time, though, Bob had showed up with his tenor sarrusophone and joined in with the chord.
		Db, F#, E, B#, F would mean you're answering Conn-O-Sax in Db, rothophone in F#, heckelphone in E, piccolo heckelphone in B#, and tenor sarrusophone in F).
	www.saxquest.com /contestArchives.asp?action=view&contestID=7 (419 words)

	Saxophone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Though rare, the Buescher straight alto was a production item instrument while the manzello was indeed a saxello with a custom made bell.
		The Tubax, developed in 1999 by the German instrument maker Benedikt Eppelsheim[7], plays the same range, and with the same fingering, as the E-flat contrabass saxophone; its bore, however, is narrower than that of a contrabass saxophone, making for a more compact instrument with a "reedier" tone (akin to the double-reed contrabass sarrusophone).
		It can be played with the smaller (and more commonly available) baritone saxophone mouthpiece and reeds.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saxophone (4389 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)