All these things are worth trying to see what happens IMO. I've tried soprano mouthpieces on cornet, great fun. I would just try and wedge a bassoon reed into the neck somehow and see what happens.
Please report back to us with video/soundclips. Psychiatric report optional.
"The fingering of the sarrusophone is nearly identical to that of the saxophone. This similarity caused Adolphe Sax to file and lose at least one lawsuit against Gautrot, claiming infringement upon his patent for the saxophone. Sax lost on the grounds that the tone produced by the two families of instruments is markedly different, despite their mechanical similarities. However, because the sarrusophone never reached wide acceptance, makers were not inclined to develop its mechanism to the same extent as that of the saxophone..."
if you want to experiment you need some sort of BOCAL to place the reed in the saxophone somehow.............abd listen to the advise given in the first video, at the end!:bluewink:
You could wrap cloth and teflon tape around the double reed cork so it will fit in the neck and then learn how to make oboe or bassoon reeds. Of course you won't have any time to practice or maybe that was the purpose of starting this thread.
You should be able to wedge a bassoon reed into a sopranino sax (remove the binding and wrap PTFE tape around it), but it might sound funny or might sound alright. Having never heard a soprano (or sopranino) Sarrusophone or Rothphone I can only suspect they sound like an oboe but louder when played by someone with a well developed oboe embouchure. But it depends on the player's ability and if they have a good concept of what an ideal tone should be (as is true with any instrument - the bloke in the 2nd video has absolutely no concept of what a good tone is!).
I read the tarogato was originally a loud double reed instrument (a type of shawm), but it was later decided while developing a more modern version a single reed mouthpiece was easier and more acceptable for it.
Most people consider dealing with one reed at a time torture enough, yet here you want to suffer with two. Have you considered seeing a therapist to help you deal with this masochistic desire?
you could also put a pair of socks inside the bell way down to the bow and use a single reed MPC, and it will sound like any double reed. And probably if the socks are dirty, you'd smell like an oboist too.
Mentioning the sarrusaphone, there was a variant called the Rothphone which was essentially a sarrusaphone but in a saxophone shape. It came in many sizes but the bore was much slimmer. It looked like a very skinny saxophone with a double reed! There's a nice photo of a tenor rothphone at saxpics.com: http://www.saxpics.com/?v=gal&a=5346
I am not sure if you are still interested in having this question answered, but I tried this on my soprano saxophone with a bassoon reed (cue to 3:41 to hear the instrument with a preceding explanation):
You will probably need a contra-bassoon reed for the tenor and 2 paddles for the bari. I am happy to share the description of how I built the double reed adapter if your are interested.
I see you are into traditional Japanese instruments. Actually, I first thought about using a Hichiriki reed instead of a bassoon reed because of the wide opening for the bore. I also built a Shakuhachi mouthpiece for my sax, but the conical shape and wide bore made it impossible for me to get low tones (flutes are usually inverted conical or cylindrical).
Here is a video with a duduk (double reed) adapted to the soprano saxophone playing in a trio with my pocket didgeridoo and the saxophone played on the neck as flute:
Funny that you ask. I just finished a video yesterday on adapting the duduk reed to the soprano saxophone:
In the video, there is an unhindered close up of the adapter 5 seconds from the start. It is also described in my book: Hyperspecializing in Saxophone. The video uses a slightly modified technique, which works better for me. In the beginning of the video, there is also a short sound comparison between the duduk-reed modified sax and a traditional duduk.
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