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sarrusophone|səˈrʌsəfəʊn|
[f. Sarrus (see quot. 1884) + Gr. ϕωνή voice, sound.]
A brass instrument of the oboe class, played with a double reed. Hence saˈrrusoˌphonist, a performer on the sarrusophone.
1875Knight Dict. Mech., Sarrusophone. 1884Encycl. Brit. XVII. 707/1 In 1856..M. Sarrus, thought out the construction of a family of brass instruments... Gautrot of Paris realized the inventor's idea, and, under the name of ‘sarrusophones’, has created a complete family, from the sopranino in E♭ to the contrabass in B♭. 1894G. B. Shaw in World 7 Mar. 23/1, I want a craftsman to take the matter up, with the object, not of inventing some new instrument like the saxophone or sarrusophone which nobody wants, but of giving us back the old instruments. 1906Daily News 21 Feb. 12 M. Leruste, the only sarrusophonist in the Garde Republicaine Band. 1926Whiteman & McBride Jazz ix. 196 The sarrusophone, which is made in seven or more sizes, is named with the wood winds although it is metal. For this reason, it is sometimes mistakenly called a metal oboe. 1975Gramophone Oct. 611/3 Since the nine encyclopaedic columns..nowhere spell out the forces required by Schmitt's score, I feel justified in giving them here:..two bassoons, sarrusophone, two E flat clarinets [etc.]. |