 | The sopranino saxophone is one of the smallest members of the saxophone family. A sopranino saxophone is tuned in the key of E-flat, and sounds an octave above the alto 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. Orsi, however, does make curved sopranino saxophones. |
| The photo (Courtesy of www.jayeaston.com) shows an E-flat sopranino saxophone (right), a C soprano saxophone (center) and a B-flat soprano saxophone (left). The most notable use of the sopranino is in the orchestral work Boléro by Maurice Ravel. Outside of classical music, notable jazz and improvising musicians using this instrument include Carla Marciano, Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Paul McCandless, Lol Coxhill, Roger Frampton, Wolfgang Fuchs, Douglas Ewart, Larry Ochs, Vinny Golia, Thomas Chapin, and Martin Archer. The sopranino saxophone is also used in the six-member Nuclear Whales Saxophone Orchestra. | |
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