Sopranino saxophone

Sopranino Saxophone

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Sopranino saxophone

The sopranino saxophone is one of the smallest members of the saxophone

Saxophone

The saxophone is a conical-Bore transposing instrument musical instrument considered a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and are played with a Single-reed instrument mouthpiece similar to the clarinet....
family. A sopranino saxophone is tuned in the key of E-flat, and sounds an octave

Octave

In music, an octave The octave is occasionally referred to as a diapason.The octave above an indicated note is sometimes abbreviated 8va, and the octave below 8vb....
above the alto saxophone

Alto saxophone

The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by the Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax. The alto, with the Tenor saxophone, is the most common size of saxophone....
. This saxophone has a sweet sound and although the sopranino is one of the least common of the saxophones in regular use today, it is still being produced by several of the major musical manufacturing companies. Due to their small size, sopraninos are not usually curved like other saxes.

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The sopranino saxophone is one of the smallest members of the saxophone

Saxophone

Octave

Alto saxophone

Adolphe Sax

Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax was a Belgium musical instrument designer and musician , best known for inventing the saxophone....
, included sopranino, soprano

Soprano saxophone

The soprano saxophone was invented in 1840 and is a variety of the saxophone, a woodwind instrument. The soprano is the second in size of the saxophone family which consists, as generally accepted, of the sopranino saxophone, soprano, Alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, bass saxophone, and contrabass saxophone....
, alto

Alto saxophone

Tenor saxophone

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor, with the Alto saxophone, is the most common size of saxophone....
, baritone

Baritone saxophone

The baritone saxophone, often called "bari sax" , is one of the larger and lower pitched members of the saxophone family. It was invented by Adolphe Sax....
, bass

Bass saxophone

The bass saxophone is the second largest existing member of the saxophone family . It is similar in design to a baritone saxophone, but it is larger, with a longer loop near the mouthpiece....
, contrabass

Contrabass saxophone

The contrabass saxophone is one of the lowest-pitched members of the saxophone family. It is extremely large and heavy , and is pitched in the key of E, one octave below the baritone....
, and subcontrabass

Subcontrabass saxophone

The subcontrabass saxophone is a type of saxophone that Adolphe Sax patented and planned to build but never constructed. Sax called this imagined instrument saxophone bourdon ....
instruments (although he never built the latter). Since the late 20th century, however, a B-flat piccolo, or sopranissimo

Sopranissimo

Sopranissimo is a musical term used to describe pitches higher than soprano.One example in common usage is the sopranissimo saxophone in B?....
saxophone (called soprillo

Soprillo

Soprillo is the brand name of a piccolo or sopranissimo saxophone, the smallest saxophone in the Saxophone#Members of the saxophone family. It is pitched in B, one octave above the soprano saxophone, although the keywork only extends to a written high E rather than F....
, and tuned a fifth above the sopranino) and a B-flat subcontrabass instrument (called tubax

Tubax

The tubax is a modified saxophone developed in 1999 by the German instrument maker Benedikt Eppelsheim. It is available in both E contrabass and B or C subcontrabass sizes....
, also made in C) have been developed by the German instrument maker Benedikt Eppelsheim

Benedikt Eppelsheim

Benedikt Eppelsheim is a world-renowned Germany maker of high- and low-voiced saxophones, the soprillo and tubax , which are available exclusively from him....
, although they are, technically, not true saxophones. Thus, the E-flat sopranino, originally the smallest size of saxophone, can now be considered the second smallest.

The most notable use of the sopranino is in the orchestral work Boléro by Maurice Ravel

Maurice Ravel

Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer and pianist of Impressionist music known especially for the subtlety, richness, and poignancy of his melodies, orchestral and instrumental Texture and effects....
. Although Ravel calls for a sopranino saxophone in F, it is unlikely that such an instrument ever existed. Outside of classical music, notable jazz and improvising musicians using this instrument include Carla Marciano, James Carter

James Carter (musician)

James Carter is an United States jazz musician.Carter was born in Detroit, Michigan and learned to play there before moving to New York City....
, Anthony Braxton

Anthony Braxton

Anthony Braxton is an American composer, saxophone, clarinettist, flute, piano, and philosopher. He has created a large body of highly complex work....
, Roscoe Mitchell

Roscoe Mitchell

Roscoe Mitchell is an African American composer, jazz musician and educator, mostly known for being "a technically superb ? if idiosyncrasy ? saxophone." He has been called "one of the key figures" in avant-garde jazz who has been "at the forefront of modern music" for the past thirty years....
, Joseph Jarman

Joseph Jarman

Joseph Jarman , is a jazz musician, composer and Jodo Shinshu priest. He is perhaps best known as one of the first members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and the Art Ensemble of Chicago....
, Paul McCandless

Paul McCandless

Paul McCandless, Jr. is an United States of America jazz woodwind player and composer. He is one of few expert jazz oboe, and also plays cor anglais, soprano saxophone, sopranino saxophone, bass clarinet, clarinet, and pennywhistle, among other instruments....
, Lol Coxhill

Lol Coxhill

Lowen Coxhill, generally known as Lol Coxhill , is a free improvisation saxophone. He usually plays the soprano saxophone or sopranino saxophone saxophones....
, Roger Frampton

Roger Frampton

Roger Frampton was an Australian jazz pianist, saxophonist, composer, and educator. Based in Sydney, he played a major role in shaping the evolution of Australian jazz....
, Hans Koller

Hans Koller

Hans Koller was one of the best known Austrian Jazz musicians and an abstract painter.Koller was born in Vienna. A saxophone prodigy, he immediately impressed the faculty of the Vienna Music Academy upon his arrival at the age of 14....
, Wolfgang Fuchs, Douglas Ewart

Douglas Ewart

Douglas R. Ewart is a multi-instrumentalist and instrument builder. He plays Sopranino saxophone and alto saxophone saxophones, clarinets, bassoon, flute, bamboo flutes , and didgeridoo; as well as Nyabinghi#Nyabinghi ....
, Larry Ochs

Larry Ochs (musician)

Larry Ochs is an American jazz saxophonist and composer.Ochs studied trumpet briefly but concentrated on tenor and sopranino saxophones. He worked as a record producer and founded his own label, Metalanguage Records, in 1978, in addition to operating the Twelve Stars studio in California....
, Vinny Golia

Vinny Golia

Vinny Golia is an United States composer and multi-instrumentalist specializing in woodwind instruments. He performs in the genres of contemporary classical music, jazz, free jazz, and free improvisation....
, Thomas Chapin

Thomas Chapin

Thomas Chapin was an United States composer and saxophone/multi-instrumentalist. Though primarily an Alto saxophone, he also played sopranino saxophone and various flutes....
, Martin Archer, and Ian Anderson

Ian Anderson (musician)

Ian Scott Anderson, Order of the British Empire is a Scotland singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, best known for his work as the head of British rock and roll band Jethro Tull ....
. The sopranino saxophone is also used in the six-member Nuclear Whales Saxophone Orchestra

Nuclear Whales Saxophone Orchestra

The Nuclear Whales Saxophone Orchestra are a group of six United States saxophonists who play as a saxophone ensemble in recordings and live performance....
, currently played by Kelley Hart Jenkins.