Sidney Bechet & Some Musings On The Demise Of The Sarrusophone
Source: en.wikipedia.org Photo by William P. Gottlieb I’ve been on the Contrabass email list for more than a decade now, and every once in a …
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A Saxophone Brooch Patent? Who Would Have Thunk It?
If you do a search for “saxophone” on eBay, on any given day you will find 20,000+ listings. Make it a worldwide search, and you …
Frankensax’s Offspring Gets Its Patent
Update June 2024: It seems that Frankensax and its Broctave key relative are extinct. But since Dr. Brockman is still around, as is his website, …
A Sea Of Saxophones
This morning while I was perusing Flickr, I happening across a photo that was so aptly named, that it stopped me dead in my virtual …
Another Saxophone Hater From the 1920s
I have noted in the past, some articles from the early 20th century that were critical of saxophones and saxophone players. (They were, of course, …