--- In Sarrusophone@y..., Jopi Harri <jopi.harri@u...> wrote:

> However, there could be some other solutions than the sarrusophone -
>i.e.the bass saxophone (in my experience, almost a similar rarity as
>the sarrusophone),

> I have personally been thinking, out of pure spite, to write a
> piece for a symphony orchestra with a part for "reed contrabass",
> with a footnote that this part should be realized primarily by the
> contrabass sarrusophone, if none is available, by the bass
> saxophone,

Of course, I have been considering not bass sax but the contrabass
sax in Eb, and thus, the part would be in the same transposition
(i.e. the same) as for the contrabass sarrusophone in Eb.

- Jopi Harri, Turku, Finland