Other sax shaped instruments - Revision history

Gwesterhof: /* Zobo and Songophone */

2024-01-01T21:39:23Z

‎Zobo and Songophone

Gwesterhof: /* Sax-nietphone */

2024-01-01T21:32:39Z

‎Sax-nietphone

Gwesterhof: /* Sax-nietphone */

2021-01-22T19:08:02Z

‎Sax-nietphone

Gwesterhof: /* Sax-o-tuba */

2019-07-26T10:57:41Z

‎Sax-o-tuba

Gwesterhof: /* Sax-nietphone */

2019-07-26T10:57:06Z

‎Sax-nietphone

Gwesterhof: /* Sax-nietphone */

2019-07-26T10:55:44Z

‎Sax-nietphone

Gwesterhof: /* Sax-nietphone */

2019-07-26T10:54:49Z

‎Sax-nietphone

Gwesterhof: /* Zobo and Songophone */

2019-07-26T10:52:53Z

‎Zobo and Songophone

Gwesterhof: /* Couesnon */

2019-07-26T10:50:59Z

‎Couesnon

Gwesterhof at 20:03, 9 July 2019

2019-07-09T20:03:47Z

@@ Line 110: / Line 110: @@
 The <strong>[[Zobo and Songophone]]</strong> saxophones dates from the end of the 19th century. Under the Zobo brand W.H. Frost in New York marketed a whole line of brass kazoo's from 1895 onwards. On Januar 7th, 1896 he had the patent registered. Besides the saxophone there was also a cornet, a trombone and a tuba model. A set of 4 listed for $8,25 and made musical instruments affordable. Some years later, in 1900, Louis N. Crakow patented the Songophone, an almost identical instrument. Crakow first dealt in Zobo's together with Frost. The Songophone was also traded as  Sonophone.
-==Ernesto Daló. São Paulo--
+==Ernesto Daló, São Paulo==
-From the beginning of the 20th century dates this sax shaped Eb tuba. According to it's owner, Jefferson Nubile, it's branded Ernesto Daló, an instrument maker from São Paulo, Brasil.
+From the beginning of the 20th century dates this sax shaped Eb tuba. According to it's owner, Jefferson Nubile, it's branded Ernesto Daló, an instrument maker from São Paulo, Brasil. Daló was a renowned maker of tuba's for the military.
 <gallery widths="150" heights="150">

← Older revision		Revision as of 21:32, 1 January 2024
Line 109:		Line 109:

	The <strong>[[Zobo and Songophone]]</strong> saxophones dates from the end of the 19th century. Under the Zobo brand W.H. Frost in New York marketed a whole line of brass kazoo's from 1895 onwards. On Januar 7th, 1896 he had the patent registered. Besides the saxophone there was also a cornet, a trombone and a tuba model. A set of 4 listed for $8,25 and made musical instruments affordable. Some years later, in 1900, Louis N. Crakow patented the Songophone, an almost identical instrument. Crakow first dealt in Zobo's together with Frost. The Songophone was also traded as Sonophone.		The <strong>[[Zobo and Songophone]]</strong> saxophones dates from the end of the 19th century. Under the Zobo brand W.H. Frost in New York marketed a whole line of brass kazoo's from 1895 onwards. On Januar 7th, 1896 he had the patent registered. Besides the saxophone there was also a cornet, a trombone and a tuba model. A set of 4 listed for $8,25 and made musical instruments affordable. Some years later, in 1900, Louis N. Crakow patented the Songophone, an almost identical instrument. Crakow first dealt in Zobo's together with Frost. The Songophone was also traded as Sonophone.
		+
		+	==Ernesto Daló. São Paulo--
		+
		+	From the beginning of the 20th century dates this sax shaped Eb tuba. According to it's owner, Jefferson Nubile, it's branded Ernesto Daló, an instrument maker from São Paulo, Brasil.
		+
		+	<gallery widths="150" heights="150">
		+	File: Ernesto Dalo.jpg
		+	Ernesto Dalo 1.jpg
		+	</gallery>

	==Sax-nietphone==		==Sax-nietphone==

@@ Line 138: / Line 138: @@
 </gallery>
-And here's another saxophone-shaped instrument from the collections of the National Music Museum. From their descriptio: "likely made about 1925. It appears not to have been professionally made: there are no tuning slides (just engraved lines where the slides would normally be located), the pistons are crudely made, and it has been essentially "patched" together. It appears that an amateur maker may have copied a professional euphonium with a four-valve compensating system similar to Besson's "enharmonic patent,".
+And here's another saxophone-shaped instrument from the collections of the National Music Museum. From their description: "likely made about 1925. It appears not to have been professionally made: there are no tuning slides (just engraved lines where the slides would normally be located), the pistons are crudely made, and it has been essentially "patched" together. It appears that an amateur maker may have copied a professional euphonium with a four-valve compensating system similar to Besson's "enharmonic patent,".
 ==Sax-o-tuba==

@@ Line 152: / Line 152: @@
 Ian Church and Harvey Hartman build this Jazzophone from a King 1140 marching tuba in 2011. A 19-inch bell, .687-inch bore and four valves. It weighs 26 pounds, measures 6 feet. For sale in October 2012 for $3100. It went to the Norwegian tuba player Roger Fjeldet, who plays it [https://fi-fi.facebook.com/dnbe.no/videos/10155914079427200/ here].
-[[File:Jazzophon Praag juni 2015.jpg|thumb|center|<small>source:Joost de Jong 2015</small]]
+[[File:Jazzophon Praag juni 2015.jpg|thumb|center|<small>source:Joost de Jong 2015</small>]]
 And a sax shaped tuba with rotary valves, caught in June 2015 on the Charles Bridge, Prague playing Dixieland music. The Bridge Band [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igF1_0oQM0M performing], with at 1'06 a tuba solo..... And [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thEx6EmvApE here]'s another take.

@@ Line 134: / Line 134: @@
 File:Antoniophone Bass 2 Totman.JPG|<small>orpheon/antoniophone</small>
 File:Cooper alto horn in E-flat D high pitch made by Roy Cooper in Elkhart Indiana ca. 1910.jpg|<small>Roy Cooper alto horn in Eb/high pitch D. coll. NMM </small>
-File:Cornophone Eb alto 1890 Besson 45315 Totman small.jpg|<small> cornophone</small>
+File:Cornophone Eb alto 1890 Besson 45315 Totman.jpg|<small> cornophone</small>
 File:NMM saxshaped.jpg|<small> saxshaped eufonium col.: NMM</small>
 </gallery>

@@ Line 121: / Line 121: @@
   <gallery widths="150" heights="150">
-File:Stuckemeyer Schultz 1.jpg
+File:Stuckemeyer Schultz 1.JPG
-File:Stuckemeyer Schultz 2.jpg
+File:Stuckemeyer Schultz 2.JPG
-File:Stuckemeyer Schultz.jpg
+File:Stuckemeyer Schultz.JPG
 </gallery>
   <small>Pat Stuckemeyer sax euphonium</small>

@@ Line 104: / Line 104: @@
 ==Zobo and Songophone==
 <gallery widths="150" heights="150">
-File:Zobo saxophone small.jpg|<small>Zobo saxophone, coll.Gerard Westerhof</small>
+File:Zobo saxophone.JPG|<small>Zobo saxophone, coll.Gerard Westerhof</small>
-File:Songophone sax shaped (2) small.jpg|<small> Songophone saxophone, mouthpiece missing, coll. Gerard Westerhof</small>
+File:Songophone sax shaped.JPG|<small> Songophone saxophone, mouthpiece missing, coll. Gerard Westerhof</small>
 </gallery>

@@ Line 46: / Line 46: @@
 [[File:Cat couesnon saxie.jpg|thumb|center|<small>Couesnon pricelist 1930 source: Jean-Luc Matte</small>]]
-It was described to the 'ever-widening circle of admirers of the saxophone' as 'the little brother of the saxophone', but easier to play. A Method for the Couesnon Saxie was published by Simson & Frey, New York 1924. The small number of Saxies shows that it was an interesting experiment but not a commercial success. The Saxie is described in detail in The Galpin Society Journal from April 1999: [https://marge.home.xs4all.nl/a_six-finger_hole_saxophone_the_saxie_inst..pdf A Six-Finger Hole Saxophone]: The Saxie. At the time the author, David Rycroft, was aware of four Saxies apart from his own, two in private collections and two in a museum. At least four more popped up on Ebay in recent years, the one I acquired was sold by a designer from Oakland, California, who found it years ago at an estate sale in Berkeley.
+It was described to the 'ever-widening circle of admirers of the saxophone' as 'the little brother of the saxophone', but easier to play. A Method for the <strong>[[Couesnon Saxie]]</strong> was published by Simson & Frey, New York 1924. The small number of Saxies shows that it was an interesting experiment but not a commercial success. The Saxie is described in detail in The Galpin Society Journal from April 1999: [https://marge.home.xs4all.nl/a_six-finger_hole_saxophone_the_saxie_inst..pdf A Six-Finger Hole Saxophone]: The Saxie. At the time the author, David Rycroft, was aware of four Saxies apart from his own, two in private collections and two in a museum. At least four more popped up on Ebay in recent years, the one I acquired was sold by a designer from Oakland, California, who found it years ago at an estate sale in Berkeley.
-[[File:Attilio berni saxie.jpg|thumb|center]]
+<gallery widths="150" heights="150">
 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0tFp2_H3R8 Attilio Berni playing his saxie, from 7.12 till 7.30 in this video]
@@ Line 83: / Line 85: @@
 <small>Coueson sax shaped bugle     coll.: Frans Mich, Neerpelt, Belgium </small>
 The pineapple below the Couesnon & Cie engraving says 27, which according to some sources stands for the year of production, 1927. That would make sense.
 ==Saxonette en Saxello==

@@ Line 44: / Line 44: @@
 The Saxie is a sax shaped instrument with a 62 centimeter u-bend brass tube and bell and a reed mouthpiece. The inventor and patent holder of the instrument was Frederick B. Hammam of Baltimore, Maryland, the US-patent dating from June 3rd, 1924. The Couesnon company in Paris must have quickly bought the patent rights as their name is on all the now known extant Saxies. Under the reference to the US patent is written Bte SGDG, an abbreviation of Breveté Sans Garantie du Gouvernement. SGDG was a French patent system, where the government didn't accept liability.
-[[File:Cat couesnon saxie.jpg|thumb|center|<small>Couesnon pricelist 1930 source: Jean-Luc Matte</small]]
+[[File:Cat couesnon saxie.jpg|thumb|center|<small>Couesnon pricelist 1930 source: Jean-Luc Matte</small>]]
 It was described to the 'ever-widening circle of admirers of the saxophone' as 'the little brother of the saxophone', but easier to play. A Method for the Couesnon Saxie was published by Simson & Frey, New York 1924. The small number of Saxies shows that it was an interesting experiment but not a commercial success. The Saxie is described in detail in The Galpin Society Journal from April 1999: [https://marge.home.xs4all.nl/a_six-finger_hole_saxophone_the_saxie_inst..pdf A Six-Finger Hole Saxophone]: The Saxie. At the time the author, David Rycroft, was aware of four Saxies apart from his own, two in private collections and two in a museum. At least four more popped up on Ebay in recent years, the one I acquired was sold by a designer from Oakland, California, who found it years ago at an estate sale in Berkeley.