Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
J'Élle Stainer is a musical instrument manufacturer specialising in large saxophones based in Italy and São Paulo, Brazil. They are notable for building some of the first subcontrabass saxophones , the largest of the family of instruments conceived of by its Belgian inventor in the 1840s, Adolphe Sax .
Although described in Adolphe Sax's patent in 1846, a practical, playable subcontrabass saxophone did not exist until the 21st century. [2] An oversized saxophone that might have qualified was built as a prop circa 1965; it could produce tones, but its non-functional keywork required assistants to manually open and close the pads, and it was reportedly incapable of playing a simple scale.
Saxophone ensembles were also popular at this time, and the contrabass saxophone was an eye-catching novelty for the groups that were able to obtain one. By the onset of the Great Depression , the saxophone craze had ended, and the contrabass, already rare, almost disappeared from public view.
As wildfires continue to rage through the Los Angeles area, the NFL has already put together an alternate plan for the Vikings-Rams playoff game.
Corrections & clarifications: This story has been updated to reflect the areas under evacuation for the Palisades Fire. Editor's Note: The wildfires in California continue to rage. Click here for ...
"Whatever stage of your life, whatever age, whatever size, we have to love every inch and own every part of ourselves,” said Long, per a SKIMS press release
The tubax is a modified contrabass saxophone developed in 1999 by the German instrument maker Benedikt Eppelsheim.Although it has the same fingering as the saxophone, Eppelsheim's design reduces the amount of expansion of its conical bore in relation to the length of tubing, resulting in a smaller volume of resonant air column.
4 Is the Tubax a saxophone? Comments from Jay C. Easton. 7 comments. 5 ... 6 Octacontrabass saxophone. 4 comments. 7 First contrabass sax. 2 comments. Toggle the ...