I never know how to spell tárogató, taragato, tarogot, taragot...
My thought too about it lookin' like a tenor except somewhere in the literature it talked about being so long you needed a ladder to play the bass one.
I'd think that a similar sound could be emulated with a soprano sax and a suitably shaped mouthpiece. (maybe with the reed upside down or so...)FWIW, I've not heard taragato music outside Hungarian compositions and that music's not to my taste. I think, however, that it could be a really interesting color for a symphonic setting.
I'd think that a similar sound could be emulated with a soprano sax and a suitably shaped mouthpiece. (maybe with the reed upside down or so...)
However, Heckelphones are still being made by at least two companies: Orsi and Heckel .
Gandalfe, you'll note in your screenshot that it mentions Gregus Pal. He's the gentleman that made the tenor taragato in my calendar. I think his contact info is at http://kezmuves.sugovica.hu/GregusPal/index.htm. However, while it does picture "basszus" taragatos there, it looks awfully like the tenor one in my calendar.
Anyhow, it never hurts to e-mail!
No; Orsi used to have them on their price sheet. Orsi is interesting because they'll make just about anything. For the right price, like the $84,000 contrabass sax.News to me! Heckel still makes heckelphones, and Guntram Wolf makes a bass oboe (to low F!) called the lupophone, but as far as I know, Orsi is concentrating on clarinets and (soprano) oboes these days. They do (or did) make sarrusophones and reed contrabasses: perhaps that was what you were thinking of?
I still haven't run across a bass tárogató (or any size other than Bb soprano), but then, I haven't been looking much for them either...
In that video it looks like the next has been replaced by a modern-day tenor sax neck.
...and the classic attire by modern-day street wear. :-/
(I don't think it's necessary to play in tux or formal wear, but apparel like this somehow devalues a performance, no?)