Category:Saxtuba

**Saxtuba**
	a brasswind instrument
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Discoverer or inventor	Adolphe Sax;
Time of discovery or invention	1845;
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Saxtuba is an obsolete valved brasswind instrument conceived by the Belgian instrument-maker Adolphe Sax around 1845.^[1] The design of the instrument was inspired by the ancient Roman cornu and Roman tuba.

In the 1770s, the French artist Jacques-Louis David carried out extensive researches into the ancient Roman instruments that appeared on Trajan's Column in Rome. Two of these instruments – the straight Roman tuba and the curved cornu – were revived in Revolutionary France as the buccina and tuba curva.^[2] To devise the saxtubas Sax merely added valves to these natural instruments, thus providing them with chromatic compasses. Furthermore, he designed them in such a way that the valves were hidden from general view, thus giving the impression that the instruments were primitive natural trumpets only capable of playing notes from a single harmonic series.

References

Bevan, Clifford (1990). "The Saxtuba and Organological Vituperation". The Galpin Society Journal 43: pp. 135–146. Galpin Society. DOI:10.2307/842482. ISSN 0072-0127.

↑ Bevan 1990 gives the instrument's name as Saxtuba throughout. Other sources refer to the Sax-tuba or saxo-tuba.
↑ Bevan 1990, p. 136. The buccina of 1791 should not be confused with a slightly later instrument of the same name (buccin), which was a species of trombone.