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SAXHORN

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 263 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAXHORN , the generic name of a See also:

family of See also:brass See also:wind See also:instruments (not horns but See also:valve-bugles) with See also:cup-shaped mouthpieces, invented by Adolphe See also:Sax and in use chiefly in See also:French and Belgian military bands and in small wind-bands. The saxhorns came- into being in 1843, when Sax applied a modification of the valve See also:system invented in See also:Germany in 1815 to the keyed See also:bugle. The saxhorn consists of a conical See also:tube of a calibre greater than that of French See also:horn and See also:trumpet, but smaller than that of the tubas or bombardons, and capable therefore of producing by overblowing the members of the See also:harmonic See also:series from the 2nd to the 8th, in See also:common with the cornets, bugles, valve-trombones and the See also:Wagner tubas. The saxhorns are furnished with ' See Dr Emil Schafhautl's See also:article on musical instruments in See also:sect. iv. of Bericht der Beurteilungscommission bei der allg. deutschen Industrieausstellung, 1854 (See also:Munich, 1855), pp. 169—170. 2 Georges Kastner, in See also:Manuel See also:general de musique militaire (See also:Paris, 1848), gives full See also:information on the saxhorns, pp. 230 et seq., 246-247, and Pls. xxii. and See also:xxiii.

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