Hi Katie,

The sarrusophones form a family of instruments that have conical bodies
(like saxophones) and double reeds. They were invented in the 1850s (a few
years after the saxophone) in order to compete with saxes. See
http://www.contrabass.com/pages/sarrus.html for pictures, sounds, more
history, etc.

They're fun to play ;-)

Grant


At 05:09 AM 2/23/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi, my name is Katie and I'm a new memeber. I have absolutely no
>idea what a sarrusophone is but I saw the fingering chart on a band
>web site. What exactly is a sarrusophone? It has peaked my interest.
>Thanks,
>Katie
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