{"id":24483,"date":"2011-03-28T10:41:14","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T17:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/?p=24483"},"modified":"2024-05-17T09:34:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T16:34:38","slug":"some-great-vintage-dance-music-featuring-the-goofus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/2011\/some-great-vintage-dance-music-featuring-the-goofus\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Great Vintage Dance Music Featuring The Goofus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the past couple of years I’ve mentioned a few Couesnophones on my blog when I’ve seen them on eBay. The Couesnophone is a French instrument that is also called a Goofus. It was made by Couesnon in the 1920s, and when we see them on eBay nowadays, they’re often in pretty rough condition.<\/p>\n

The Goofus is a free reed instrument, and unlike the sax which can only play one note at at time, the Couesnophone is capable of playing multiple notes simultaneously.<\/p>\n

The poor Goofus never really grabbed the attention of professional players, and many surely ended up in closets, attics, and toy boxes.  <\/p>\n

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     Source: eBay.com<\/h6>\n

An exception to this no professionals use the Goofus<\/em> rule, was the Goofus Five<\/em>, a band that was a smaller subset of the California Ramblers\u00b9<\/em>. The California Ramblers<\/em> were of course extremely well known for their bass saxophonist, Adrian Rollini.<\/p>\n

In the photo below, Rollini is pictured with guitarist Allen Haulon.<\/p>\n

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     Source: wikipedia.org<\/h6>\n

Rollini was originally a pianist and xylophonist, but once he introduced his bass saxophone skills on breaks and solos, the California Ramblers <\/em>had a sound uniquely their own. In the Goofus Five<\/em>, Rollini played the Goofus.<\/p>\n

In the following recording done on June 15, 1927 in New York, the Goofus Five<\/em> performs Vo-Do-Do-De-O Blues.<\/em><\/p>\n