Industry Focus – After a century of feverish inventing and constructing of entire families of new conical brass instruments, one might ask why we should try to invent another such family. Isn’t it enough that we have a heritage of almost forgotten and obsolete instrument families of valve bugles such as sudrophones, cornophones, helicons, sousaphones, herculesophones, pellitones, imperial cornets, saxtubas, saxotrombas, saxhorns, flicornis, mellophones, baroxytones, antoniophones, swanhorns, ballad horns, vocal horns, or lyrophones?
Industry Focus Introducing A New Helicon Family Member: Soprano Helicon by Igor Krivokapič After a century of feverish inventing and constructing of entire families of…