{"id":7870,"date":"2009-06-27T09:41:44","date_gmt":"2009-06-27T16:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/?p=7870"},"modified":"2009-07-31T11:35:08","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T18:35:08","slug":"the-somporing-a-saxophone-made-of-bamboo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/2009\/the-somporing-a-saxophone-made-of-bamboo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Somporing: A Saxophone Made Of Bamboo"},"content":{"rendered":"

The old adage, necessity is the mother of invention<\/em>, has proven to be very true for Philipus Jani, who lives in the Tambunan District of Malaysia. He borrowed a saxophone from a friend, promptly fell in love with the instrument, but couldn’t afford\u00a0one. So he decided to make one for himself instead.<\/p>\n

“The experiment started in 1993, and I finally perfected a saxophone made of bamboo 12 years later.” “I used my own calculations and measurements for placement of holes and now, it functions perfectly,” the New Strait Times quoted Jani, as saying. “This traditional instrument is as good as the modern one and it shows that we can improvise and make instruments of our own using resources like bamboo,” Jani added.<\/p>\n

Source: http:\/\/living.oneindia.in<\/a><\/h6>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Jani sells his small somporing for 500 MYR (Malaysian ringgit), and his large ones for 1000 MYR (approx $140 US and $280 US at the time of writing).\u00a0Each instrument comes with a case made of bamboo. It takes Jani between 4 to 7 days to make an instrument.<\/p>\n

EstherK recently took this photo<\/a> of Philipus Jani playing his small somporing.\u00a0It’s shape and size would lead one to\u00a0believe it is\u00a0of the soprano variety. The larger somporing was captured in this colour<\/a>, and this black and white<\/a> photo by ae8za. This larger somporing has the classic shape of a tenor saxophone.<\/p>\n

These somporing certainly look somewhat more advanced then the vintage\u00a0bamboo saxophones<\/a> that the Manila Orchestra were\u00a0playing in the early part of the 20th century.<\/p>\n

\"bamboo_orchestra\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Source: blog.modernmechanix.com<\/h6>\n

I wonder\u00a0how they would compare in sound?<\/p>\n

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