Nononononono. ADOLPHE Sax was born in 1814. He's the inventor of the smartest invention ever! The bass sax was the first one invented and it was invented around 1840.
It seems that it is for real. I don't know if the sax is any good, but it seems that they are hand built with low G and A.
I will be in Brazil in July. I will check it out and let you know more about it.
This is a "pure" Adolphe Sax invention with one valve for each slide position, which comes out one bell. Instead of playing first position, you press the first valve. Which comes out the first bell. Then for second position, you press second valve, which comes out the second bell. So each bell is a 1/2 step longer than the preceeding bell. You can technically play 7 notes at a time! You can play multiphonics on that thing (but would take years of practice)
Go to www.selmer.fr (Switch to english mode if you can't read french at the top right), and go to the history section, and click historical models. Tons of close-up found in sax's workshop!
You are wrong when you say subsubsubsubcontrabass. That equals about 5 octaves below the tenor. If you wanted to get even CLOSE to accurate it would be about... subsubsubsubsubsubsubsubsubsubsubsubsubsubcontrabass... I think...
I have a great photo of me trying to play the saxophone first mentioned in this thread; I was in Dinant a few years ago for a competition, and had to get a photo with it
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