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A descriptive catalogue of the musical instruments recently exhibited at the Royal Military Exhibition, London, 1890 …, 1891
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1harmonic only can be obtained. Hence there are two octave keys, the use of which enables the compass of the instrument to be carried chromatically up to
3sounding an octave lower. This instrument, invented originally in Austria by Stehle, has been reconstructed both by M. Cerveny, of Königgratz, and by M. Charles Mahillon, of Brussels. It produces a singularly rich quality of tone, and, when well played, is of great value, both in orchestral combinations, and as a reed-bass in military bands. In construction it differs essentially from the wooden contra-bassoons, previously described, in the application of the octave keys. The instrument is represented in the engraving on page 83.
5Lent by Messrs. Mahillon and Co.
7175.
9THREE SARRUSOPHONES. By Gautrot, of Paris. These instruments were invented originally by M. Sarruss, formerly a bandmaster in the French army under the last Empire. They consist of a conical tube of brass, curved several times round itself, and played by means of a double reed. The holes, all of which are closed by keys, are placed at the correct acoustic intervals along the bore. The fingering of these instruments has some analogy with that of the so-called Boehm clarinet. There is a complete family of sarrusophones, consisting of a sopranino, in e'b; soprano, in b'b; contralto, in e'b; tenor, in B'b; barytone, in E'b; bass, in B,,b; contra-bass, in E,,b; and contra-bassoon, in C,, or B,,b.
11The successive opening of the lateral holes produces a chromatic scale extending from
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