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Sarrusophone   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Gautrot-Marquet; Gautrot, P
Title
Sarrusophone
Object type Classification: NM3.10109
Description
English: Sarrusophone, bass in B flat, metal, probably originally brass painted gold, keyed and stopped double reed instrument designed to replace oboes and bassoons in military bands 1 bass sarrusophone in Bb Gautrot-Marquet, Paris, France, circa 1875 brass, overall length 890 mm engraved ‘Gautrot-Marquet - breveté s.g.d.g. à Paris - GM - 501’ 1998.60.132 Castle 206 (presented Crump) The sarrusophone family was invented in 1856 by the French bandmaster Sarrus, as a louder replacement of oboes and bassoons in the wind band. They had a conical bore and used a double reed. The family was parallel to the saxophones in pitch ranging form a straight soprano in B flat through to a contrabass in E flat. The main surviving instruments are the bass and contrabass models.
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Gautrot Marquet
breveté s.g.d.g. à Paris

G
M
501
Date 20 Oct 1998; 1875-1877; 10 Oct 1998
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length: 890mm
width: 255mm
diameter: 120mm

notes: length 890 x width 255 x diameter 120 mm
institution QS:P195,Q758657
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1998.60.132
Place of creation Paris
Credit line The Zillah Castle and Ronald Castle Collection of Musical Instruments, (206), collection of Auckland War Memorial Museum, 1998.60.132
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