. Orchestration . No. 3. No. ...I in Saxophones. I5y kind pel mis ion of Mi Boosej & !o. Facing p, 167. THE SAXOPHONES 167 merely reduplicate the tirst four semitones of the first overblown octave: i i i i r v. Five varieties of this instrument are made in this country. Likethe Saxhorns they are built alternately in E^ and B?. These fivevarieties are, in the list given below, numbered 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Twoother instruments are used in France and Belgium. They are bothextreme instruments, one in the treble, the other in the bass. Wemay add them to our list as Nbs. 1 and 7. The complete catalogue i


. Orchestration . No. 3. No. ...I in Saxophones. I5y kind pel mis ion of Mi Boosej & !o. Facing p, 167. THE SAXOPHONES 167 merely reduplicate the tirst four semitones of the first overblown octave: i i i i r v. Five varieties of this instrument are made in this country. Likethe Saxhorns they are built alternately in E^ and B?. These fivevarieties are, in the list given below, numbered 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Twoother instruments are used in France and Belgium. They are bothextreme instruments, one in the treble, the other in the bass. Wemay add them to our list as Nbs. 1 and 7. The complete catalogue isthen as follows : [(1) Sopranino in Eb.]el) Soprano in Br (3) Alto in Eb. (4) Tenor in IV (5) Baritone in E->. (6) Bass in Bb. [(7) Contrabass in E?.] The whole series of these seven military instruments, alternatelyin E^ and B*», is also reduplicated abroad by orchestral Saxophonesalternately in F and C. It must be mentioned, however, that evenabroad No. 7 (the Contrabass t scarcely exists except as a workshop-


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