Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A musical instrument, properly of the oboe class, but with a tube of metal, invented in 1863 by a French band-master, Sarrus.
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- noun music Any of a family of wind
instruments intended to replace theoboe andbassoon inbands
Etymologies
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Examples
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The sarrusophones of French invention are a complete family, made in brass and with conical tubes pierced according to geometric relation, so that the sarrusophone is more equal than the oboe it copies and is intended, at least for military music, to replace.
Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 Various
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The sarrusophone may fairly be regarded as an oboe or bassoon; but the saxophone is not so closely related to the clarinet.
Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 Various
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E flat to the contra-bass in B flat; and to replace the contra-bassoon in the orchestra there is a lower contrabass sarrusophone made in C, the compass of which is from the double bass octave B flat to the higher G in the bass clef.
Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 Various
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Preceding the invention of the sarrusophone, by which a perfected oboe was contrived in a brass instrument, a modified brass instrument, the saxophone, bearing a similar relation to the clarinet, was invented in
Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 Various
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Mr. Mimram Stoot, who accompanied himself on the sarrusophone, endorsed the iconoclastic views of his sister.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-11 Various
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It is made of brass and exists in several sizes, the only one ever used in the orchestra being the double-bass _sarrusophone_, which has approximately the same range as the double-bassoon and is sometimes (but rarely) made use of in the orchestra instead of the latter instrument.
Music Notation and Terminology Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928
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The tone of the _sarrusophone_ is something like that of the bassoon.
Music Notation and Terminology Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928
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The _sarrusophone_ is an instrument with a double-reed.
Music Notation and Terminology Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928
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