Rooster_Ties Posted March 17, 2004 Report Share Posted March 17, 2004 (edited) OK, I had this big idea for a thread all thought out as I was driving back from St. Louis on Sunday. And, of course, now I can't remember even half the details. But before I forget to even start the thread, here goes... What are all the non-standard "saxamaphone"-like instruments that have been used and/recorded on over the years??? And who are the guys who have invented/developed them, and recorded with them??? I know, many of them are home-made (non-standard) instruments, but some of them were given semi-official names (at least by their creators, Roland Kirk comes to mind). AND, since a good number of them (or at least the best known ones) were developed and/or "found" by Roland Kirk, let's open this same discussion/thread up to the topic of playing two (or more) saxes at the same time, like Kirk and George Braith are probably the best known for. >> Are there any other guys who are semi-well-known for playing 2 or more saxes at the same time??? >> Does anybody have any pics of the two saxes that Braith supposedly welded together into one instrument?? I can't remember if there's a pic of it/them in the complete BN Braith Conn (and I don't know where mine it at the moment, it's around here somewhere). There's a guy here in Kansas City (Mark Southerland) who plays alto and tenor together at the same time, and does a GREAT job with it (as well as Braith, to my ears). He also has several homemade sax-like horns, including a piccolo body that he's grafted a soprano sax mouthpiece onto. He can get a full range of notes out of it, but needless to say that they're not all "well tempered", if you get my drift. Still, he gets quite a range of expression out of the thing. I think it's the only such homemade instrument of his that I've seen, but I understand he's got others too. He plays in a band called Malachy Papers, and perhaps more frequently on the homemade instruments in a side-project of his called "Snuff Jazz". (Probably more accurate to say he co-leads Malachy Papers, for the record.) Anyway, post any and all pics of any homemade sax-related instruments here, and any info about multi-sax-playing guys you can think of, and (for you musicians on the board), any thoughts about the technical issues of any of these subjects. Edited March 17, 2004 by Rooster_Ties Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
couw Posted March 17, 2004 Report Share Posted March 17, 2004 Braith and his double horn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooster_Ties Posted March 17, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2004 left to right: manzello, saxo soprano droit, saxo alto droit, saxo coulisse, saxo basse, saxo glissando, connosax, saxello, saxo soprano courbe Source (scroll down) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnS Posted March 17, 2004 Report Share Posted March 17, 2004 Slide saxophone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Williams Posted March 17, 2004 Report Share Posted March 17, 2004 Mats Gustafsson's fluteophone: flute with an alto sax mouthpiece. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHILLYQ Posted March 17, 2004 Report Share Posted March 17, 2004 I think at one time Henry Threadgill played something called a 'hubkaphone' that was a weird mix of a saxophone and something else... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
couw Posted March 18, 2004 Report Share Posted March 18, 2004 Xero Slingsby played a bikepumpaphone. no idea what it looked like. sounds weird though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted March 18, 2004 Report Share Posted March 18, 2004 I think at one time Henry Threadgill played something called a 'hubkaphone' that was a weird mix of a saxophone and something else... No saxophone, just a bell tree made of hubcaps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted March 18, 2004 Report Share Posted March 18, 2004 Snub Mosley, though primarily a trombonist, played an instrument he called slide saxophone. In photographs, it appears to be a combination of both saxophone and trombone, with mouthpieces for both instruments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Fitzgerald Posted March 18, 2004 Report Share Posted March 18, 2004 Dick Heckstall-Smith (soprano & tenor) Wilbur Sweatman (3 clarinets) Vladimir Chekasin (2 altos) One of Kirk's stritches had a bell taken from a french horn. See Roy Haynes: Out of the Afternoon. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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