Mr. Mimram Stoot, who accompanied himself on the sarrusophone, endorsed the iconoclastic views of his sister. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-11] Reference
The sarrusophone may fairly be regarded as an oboe or bassoon; but the saxophone is not so closely related to the clarinet. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891] Reference
Preceding the invention of the sarrusophone, by which a perfected oboe was contrived in a brass instrument, a modified brass instrument, the saxophone, bearing a similar relation to the clarinet, was invented in. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891] Reference
E flat to the contra-bass in B flat; and to replace the contra-bassoon in the orchestra there is a lower contrabass sarrusophone made in C, the compass of which is from the double bass octave B flat to the higher G in the bass clef. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891] Reference
The sarrusophones of French invention are a complete family, made in brass and with conical tubes pierced according to geometric relation, so that the sarrusophone is more equal than the oboe it copies and is intended, at least for military music, to replace. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891] Reference
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