Jim & I have figured out we live within an easy drive of each other.

We're doing a bit better for double reeds in my County - each
Elementary School in the city (I think there are seven) seem to each
have 3-4 doubles reeds). My son looks like his school's only
Bassoonist for this year.

So far no Sarrusophone discoveries yet - though I have unearth a Bass
Sax which the owner has promised to me - they're just deciding
timing. I don't want to get too excited until it happens.

He thinks there is a file cabinet of Sax Quintets and Swing/Big Band
stuff as well, which he told me I would get!

But still no interesting double reeds.... I'll keep digging as old
newpaper photos of several local groups seem to show either
Sarrusophone, Rothphone or Reed Bass in the background - not enough
detail from the old half-tones on microfiche to tell exactly what!

Anyone else onto anoything at the moment?

regards,

Steve



--- In Sarrusophone@y..., Jim Quist <jim@f...> wrote:
> > So far the Sarrusophone search is a dry run - but a couple of the
old
> > timers mentioned that a several of the county "Marine"
and "Military"
> > bands had people playing them years back. Maybe with enough
feelers
> > one will turn up.
>
> In our small city in Wisconsin, population 5000, there is a photo
at the
> public library from the 1920s showing what I'll assume is a
contrabass
> Sarrusophone with a sax mouthpiece in the high school marching band.
> Conn was selling those, right?
>
> We were all born a bit too late, I suppose. I think we have all of
3 bassoons
> in the whole county, and we are, rather cruelly, a Sarrusophone-
free zone.
>
> Jim