saxhorn

Here's a picture NB snapped of the two oldest instruments in the group, the 1860 Civil War era baritone saxhorn and an old fashioned upright Sousaphone*, aka "raincatcher" from 1889:

Archive 2008-12-01 1 Dinosaur 2008

Here's a picture NB snapped of the two oldest instruments in the group, the 1860 Civil War era baritone saxhorn and an old fashioned upright Sousaphone*, aka "raincatcher" from 1889:

The Unbearable Lowness of Brass 1 Dinosaur 2008

Two blocks up Fifth Avenue, at the terrace of Rockefeller Centre, two women and a man in Salvation Army uniforms played hymns on three trumpets in close harmony (a change from yesterday, when that stand bad been occupied only by an Army officer with a baritone saxhorn which he could barely play), but they didn't matter - the men weren't working Rockefeller Centre any more, having already done for that area.

Anywhen Blish, James 1970

Major Lawson was a fine cornet player, and finding the scale of the service bugle too restricted he obtained permission to add to it a valve attachment, which made the bugle a chromatic instrument like the cornet, in fact practically a saxhorn.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

All these valve instruments may be comprehended under the French name of saxhorn.

Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 Various

The _bass tuba_ is a member of the saxhorn family [42] and supplies the lowest part of the brass choir, as the double-bass does in the string choir.

Music Notation and Terminology Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928

For a very small addition to his stipend, Schmucke played the viola d'amore, hautboy, violoncello, and harp, as well as the piano, the castanets for the _cachucha_, the bells, saxhorn, and the like.

Cousin Pons Honor�� de Balzac 1824

[Footnote 42: The _saxhorn_ was invented about 1840 by Adolphe Sax, a

Music Notation and Terminology Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928