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Henning
The short answer to your question is that I and not really
playing it yet. I would very much like to use a single reed
mouthpiece since I am not a double reed player. In addition, I
do remember that my bassoon playing friends in my dormitory at college
would spend countless hours making their reeds when the rest of us
were out partying and it didn't look like fun.
After I first acquired the sarrusophone, I stumbled upon a fellow
who had a single reed mouthpiece for sale and bought it from him.
It appears to be of relatively late vintage, since it came with a
plastic ligature and is shorter than a soprano saxophone mouthpiece,
but takes a reed approximately the same width as a soprano sax.
My soprano sax mouthpiece measures 57.44 mm from tip to back of the
table whereas the "mystery" mouthpiece measures only 49.75
mm. It also appears that the proper reed should be thinner than
a soprano sax reed, since the ligature doesn't fit properly when I
attempted to insert a soprano sax reed. The hole for the bocal
is also very roughly reamed out, making me think that perhaps it may
originally be intended for a bassoon. My bocal has a 7 mm
diameter at the tip.
Receiving TWO responses to my first post encouraged me to
actually try and play a few notes. The sound of the notes I could play
were wondrous to hear but the instrument has some leaks that need
attention before I seriously learn how to play it. Many years
ago I had the opportunity to try a single reed sarrusophone mouthpiece
owned by Paul Cohen that accepted alto sax reeds and it had a much
fuller tone.
Any information on single reed mouthpieces from the group would
be gratefully accepted.
Jack
am 09.02.2003 19:48 Uhr schrieb jevansjenningsjr <jejennings@...> unter jejennings@...:
Hi Sarrusophone folks!
I've just joined this group after retrieving a Conn contrabass
Sarrusophone from my very cold attic as a potentially preliminary
step toward getting in in playable condition. I bought this
instrument many years ago with this intent but never "got 'round
to it". Now retired, I am considering the possibility.
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. I have done some research. In an article that
appeared in "The Double Reed, Vol. 8, No. 2" entitled "The
Sarrusophone" by Michel Jolivet and Robert Richart, I found the
statement, "The only American manufacturer to produce
sarrusophones was Conn who made approximately two
hundred E- flat contrabasses from ca. 1914 to a short while after
1921 (patent December 8, 1914)."
Question #1 - I cannot find either a serial number or a patent
date. Can anyone out there with a Conn contra tell me where
these might be located?
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.
Jack Jennings in Sicklervile, NJ
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Dear Jack,
I´m Henning from Hamburg/Germany (old Europe!). I have had just the same problem, no response for more than one year... I´m sorry not to be able to help you with your contrabass but I just didn´t want to leave you not receiving any sign of live from this group. I own and play a Gautrot Marquet Tenor and an anonymous Bass both without serial numbers. But still they play fine. I am interested in reeds. Where do you otain them or do you end up making them yourselves as I did?
bet wishes Henning Stoll
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