Saxophone low
The saxophone low is a Musical instrument with wind, category of the wood, among the tessitures more serious of the family of the saxophones.
The first true Saxophone low was built by the son of Adolphe Sax (Adolphe Edouard Sax), because the saxophone that Adolphe Sax father qualified low was then renamed baritone . The companies Idiot, Buescher, Kohlert, Evette and Schaeffer, then Selmer also produced a certain number of models of it. This saxophone remains a relatively rare instrument today, of share its obstruction and its cost. It is primarily manufactured by Selmer, Yanagisawa, Keilwerth and Eppelsheim.
This instrument sounds with the lower octave saxophone tenor in B flat. For lack of saxophones double basses of sufficient number (until the appearance of the Tubax), it a long time remained the serious instrument of the family, that which one uses in the Ensemble saxophones as bases harmonic and sometimes also in the Orchestre of harmony.
In jazz, one heard it in the orchestras of Duke Ellington, inter alia, where he was played by Otto Hardwick. Other occasional players in various orchestras of the years of between two wars include Coleman Hawkins, Adrian Rollini, or Billy Fowler. If its use in the orchestra were primarily summarized to hold the basic role, the musicians of free jazz made of it a use plus soloist, one can quote in particular Jan Garbarek at the time of its beginnings, Roscoe Mitchell, Vinny Golia, Peter Brötzmann or Anthony Braxton. More recently, it is also practiced with happiness by James Carter, Frederic Couderc and Yochk' O Seffer.
In the classical music, one of its first promoters was German Gustav Bumcke, who as of the years 1920 played it within the whole of Berlinois saxophones which it had formed with his pupils.
It also caused a repertory solo in the Modern music, and of the type-setters such as Bernard Cavana, Gerard Grisey, Klas Torstensson, Oracio Vaggione devoted parts to him emphasizing its particular and rare sound possibilities in the field of the richness Harmonique or Inharmonique. Among the specialized instrumentalists, it is necessary to quote Marie-Bernadette Charrier or Andreas van Zoelen. But it is often practiced in complement by the musicians specialized in the low registers, like the Saxophone baritone.
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