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10 Oct 01 - 03:36 AM (#568782) Subject: Sarrusaphone From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler I ought to know this as I'm atracted by strange musical instruments but I was lsitening to the Clarence Williams Blue Five recording last night where Bechet plays sarrusaphone as well as soprano sax. It sounds like a less smooth baritone sax or a bass kazoo(!). Was it one of those hybrid brass/woodwind instruments that had a brief vogue? Does any 'catter know? No photos in any of my jazz books. RtS |
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10 Oct 01 - 03:40 AM (#568789) Subject: RE: Help: Sarrusaphone From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Do a google search Roger. OK I will, here it is: Sarrusaphone here It is a brass/woodwind hybrid with two reeds. Now I (and you!) know. Must stop talking to myself. RtS (you're never alone with a split personality!) |
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10 Oct 01 - 05:11 AM (#568812) Subject: RE: Help: Sarrusaphone From: CarolC That sounds like the instrument they used for the spaceship music on the movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". |
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10 Oct 01 - 05:35 AM (#568818) Subject: RE: Help: Sarrusaphone From: Steve Parkes It's a giant brass oboe! I should think you have to wear ear protectors to play one of those. A bass kazoo might be easier (and safer!) to play. I wonder if I could cross a kazoo with a jug ..? I must remember to take my kazoo home on Friday and try it. Steve |
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10 Oct 01 - 12:39 PM (#569049) Subject: RE: Help: Sarrusaphone From: rangeroger I don't know about the picture of Mr Nelson engaged in family sax. rr |
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10 Oct 01 - 01:47 PM (#569111) Subject: RE: Help: Sarrusaphone From: Lanfranc A double reed (rather than two)would make it a brass bassoon! The saxophone family, like the clarinets, only have one reed. Never heard one before, but I bet it makes the party farty! There was so much background hum on the .wav on the above link that you could hardly make out the instrument. I used to play bassoon in my youth, easier to play than an oboe or cor anglais, just a lot bigger!
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10 Oct 01 - 02:06 PM (#569130) Subject: RE: Help: Sarrusaphone From: Bill D I used to have an old dictionary with a picture of a contra-bass Sarrusaphone...mounted on a little wheeled cart for parades and outdoor band concerts. I gather they DID have volume! |
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10 Oct 01 - 02:16 PM (#569140) Subject: RE: Help: Sarrusaphone From: Bill D gee...seems to be sound files, too...lookee here this guy wants to get up a quartet.... |
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11 Oct 01 - 03:30 AM (#569599) Subject: RE: Help: Sarrusaphone From: Steve Parkes Lanfranc, I nearly said it was a giant brass bassoon, but on close inspection, the reeds seem to be ... what's the technical expression? You put the reeds between your lips (as per oboe), whle the sarrusaphone reeds are enclosed (half-broken?), like a baasoon, or (heaven help us!) a bagpipe chanter--aargh! Imagine a sarrusa-bagpipe! You'd need two people to carry it, let alone play the thing. If there's a pipe-maker out ther who's tempted, DON'T DO IT! Roger, what have you started? Steve |
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11 Oct 01 - 04:27 AM (#569610) Subject: RE: Help: Sarrusaphone From: GUEST,Lanfranc at the orifice Could we persuade a gnome to suppress this thread, before it's too late and someone decides to put them back into production? Flaming is one thing, a huge brass bagpipe......... AAAaaagh! |
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11 Oct 01 - 06:19 AM (#569630) Subject: RE: Help: Sarrusaphone From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler So the consensus is I should even think of trying to play one, then!! RtS (back to the kazoo, grumble grumble, buzz buzz) |
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11 Oct 01 - 08:36 AM (#569656) Subject: RE: Help: Sarrusaphone From: Steve Parkes Roger, I think the concensus is no-one should think of playing one! The danger of proliferation is just too grim to contemplate--and ear muffs don't work so weel at low frequencies. Steve |
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11 Oct 01 - 12:57 PM (#569842) Subject: RE: Help: Sarrusaphone From: Bill D unless you have a need to do ferry-boat imitations...or perhaps mating calls of Blue Whales |
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11 Oct 01 - 01:05 PM (#569849) Subject: RE: Help: Sarrusaphone From: Lyrical Lady I met a man the other day who told me he plays the vibraphone. I didn't want to appear ignorant so I just "Oh, how nice" ... What is it? Also, have any of you seen a harmonaphone ... it's a series of glass 'tubes' on a lathe like contraption which is turned by a foot treddle and you play it by dipping you fingers in water and placing them on the rim of the glass as it turns ... very cool. LL |
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11 Oct 01 - 11:52 PM (#570245) Subject: RE: Help: Sarrusaphone From: Bill D a vibraphone is a type of Xylophone...like what Lionel Hampton played.....looks like this |
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12 Oct 01 - 01:29 AM (#570276) Subject: RE: Help: Sarrusaphone From: Margo Lyrical Lady, the water dipping inst. is the glass Armonica, an invention of the esteemed Benjamin Franklin. You can read about it here: http://www.glassarmonica.com/ Margo |
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12 Oct 01 - 02:28 AM (#570292) Subject: RE: Help: Sarrusaphone From: Lyrical Lady Thank you Margo! I think it's fabulous instrument. Mozart wrote a beautiful piece especially for the armonica. I first saw it on TV when my girls used to watch Mr. Rogers! LL |
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12 Oct 01 - 04:14 PM (#570750) Subject: RE: Help: Sarrusaphone From: Tig Well we actually saw Bill\Sables take his saw out of a violin case and play it the other week!! Let people play what they feel like..... |