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Encyclopedia Britannica



SAXHORN

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 263 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SAR-SCY
SAXHORN , the generic name of a family of
brass
  wind
instruments
  (not horns but valve-bugles) with cup-shaped mouthpieces, invented by Adolphe Sax and in use chiefly in 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
system
  invented in Germany in 1815 to the keyed bugle. The saxhorn consists of a conical tube of a calibre greater than that of French horn and
trumpet
 , but smaller than that of the tubas or bombardons, and capable therefore of producing by overblowing the members of the harmonic
series
  from the 2nd to the 8th, in common with the cornets, bugles, valve-trombones and the
Wagner
  tubas. The
saxhorns are furnished with
' See Dr Emil Schafhautl's article on musical
instruments
  in sect. iv. of Bericht der Beurteilungscommission bei der allg. deutschen Industrieausstellung, 1854 (
Munich
 , 1855), pp. 169170.
2 Georges Kastner, in
Manuel
  general de musique militaire (Paris, 1848), gives full information on the saxhorns, pp. 230 et seq., 246-247, and Pls. xxii. and xxiii.


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