At 06:48 PM 2/9/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>The first thing I wanted to find out was it's date of manufacture. I
>just spent 30 minutes inspecting it carefully and COULDN'T
>FIND A SERIAL NUMBER. The serial numbers on my Conn
>C-Melody, Baritone and Bass Saxes are all easily found and
>deeply stamped but for the life of me, I can't find one on the
>Sarrusophone.

The Conn contras were mainly made for the US military - they're often
stamped with the quartermaster's emblem. Most sarrusophones I've seen are
stamped somewhere near the bell.

>Question #2 - I first found (and joined) another Yahoo
>Sarrusophone group named "Sarrusophone2" which appears to
>be defunct. I posted this question there but have recieved no
>response(s). Waht's the history and "poop" on this "other"
>group? Seems strange to have two groups devoted to this rather
>obscure instrument.

Not defunct, just not very active ;-) That group is mine. The reason
there are two is that they were started on different services, before
everything was bought up by Yahoo. The contrabass list (see
http://www.contrabass.com/pages/list.html) also discusses sarrusophones
from time to time.

Enjoy!

Grant