The Saxhorn is a valved brass instrument with a tapered bore and deep cup-shaped mouthpiece.
The sound has a characteristic mellow quality, and blends well with other brass.
The saxhorns form a family of seven instruments (although at one point ten different sizes seem to have existed).
Designed for band use, they are pitched alternately in E-flat and B-flat, like the saxophone group.
There is much confusion as to nomenclature of the various instruments in different languages.
This has been exacerbated by the debate as to whether the saxhorn family was truly new, or rather a development of members of the previously existing cornet and tuba families.
The saxhorn is also commonly confused with the flügelhorn, a German instrument which has a different configuration and predates the saxhorn.
This confusion probably arises from the common substitution of the flügelhorn for the saxhorn when no saxhorn is available (and vice versa).
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