More Jazzophone

**pete** · 03-05-2012, 03:09 AM

Hey, we've got a website devoted to them: http://marge.home.xs4all.nl/jazzophoneen.htm

Reminder to self: new area for miscellaneous instrument websites and such.

**Gandalfe** · 03-05-2012, 02:12 PM

I sold mine last year. I had a Keilwerth which is not shown on this site. Great find Pete!

**pete** · 03-05-2012, 03:22 PM

The most interesting thing about the J. Keilwerth company is that they made brasswinds. A lot of people are under the impression -- as I was -- that they were always saxophone-only.

**sideC** · 03-05-2012, 04:11 PM

How about the skoonum, a double bell trumpet invented by Billy Brooks? Brook's horn was played for a while by Cat Anderson of the Duke Ellington Orchestra. Brooks was an American trumpeter who was living in Holland when he came up with his new trumpet. It wasn't shaped like a saxophone, and I don't know much about the principles involved in playing it, but checking out this website made me think of the skoonum horn.

Julian

**pete** · 03-06-2012, 03:50 AM

Baritone sax: more brass than the entire trumpet section and trombone section combined, but it's a woodwind.

My ex-wife was a trumpet player, so I know a bit about trumpet. I know some trombonist jokes: what do the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus and a trombonist with a girlfriend have in common?

**Groovekiller** · 03-06-2012, 06:51 AM

Originally Posted by Gandalfe

I sold mine last year. I had a Keilwerth which is not shown on this site. Great find Pete!

Nuts. I sort of wanted one. I don't know why. Probably best that I didn't know it was for sale.

**saxhound** · 03-07-2012, 04:44 AM

Originally Posted by pete

My ex-wife was a trumpet player, so I know a bit about trumpet. I know some trombonist jokes: what do the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus and a trombonist with a girlfriend have in common?

Maybe too obvious, but they are all figments of your imagination.

/still trying to come up with a bagpipe joke that isn't all worn out.