How To Use Saxhorn In A Sentence
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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"
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All these valve instruments may be comprehended under the French name of saxhorn.
Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891
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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:
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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.
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The euphonium and bombardon, the basses of the important family of saxhorns, now completely cover the ground of bass wind instrument music.
Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891
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[Footnote 42: The _saxhorn_ was invented about 1840 by Adolphe Sax, a
Music Notation and Terminology
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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
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In fact, he did not even use one brass band: there are no cornets, saxhorns and bombardons in the score, but there is extra orchestral brass.
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Heard on the fundamentally different, narrow-bored period cornets, althorn, saxhorn etc (all the Wallace Collection's early instruments are described in detail for cognoscenti) they come up fresh and lucid.
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The euphonium differs from the B baritone saxhorn at the same pitch in being considerably wider in bore.
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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