Denis,

Welcome aboard. You'll probably find more frequent discussions about the
sarrusophone on the contrabass list:

http://www.contrabass.com/pages/list.html

Please feel free to join us there. And may a sarrusophone come to life
in your hands very soon...

Jim


> ... To anybody.
>
> I am a french amateur, playing bassoon (french indeed), member of
> an association of wind instruments collectors. Presently, I do not
> play and not even possess any sarrusophone, just dreaming of ...
>
> I learned about it when I was a child, reading in an old music
> book, dated 1895: "The only used in orchestra is the contrabass ... to
> replace contrabassoon, with large avantages." The book belonged to my
> grand-mother who was a violonist.
>
> Some of the members of the association are posessing sarrusophone,
> and I promoted your discussion group amongs our members. We have a
> dicussion group reserved to members:
>
> http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/Larigot/
>
> Sorry, it is in french. But Sarrusophone is also French ;-)