Markneukirchen in the Saxonian Vogtland, an area that acted for years as the world's musicstore.īohemia an Saxonia were, apart from a short interval around World War Of the Jazzophon lie in the area of Graslitz in Bohemia and The open bell. Stem and trigger replaced in 2002 by Helmuth Voigt in So, here you'll find everything you always wanted to know Tickled my curiosity and I started researching. Hos stated there was only one other one around in World War II by a friend's uncle who had worked in the GermanĪrbeitseinsatz. It was taken home to Holland shortly after I stumbled across the Jazzophon early in 2010, when Gertjan Hos fromĪssendelft offered one for sale. Was it a lack of suitable music or was it too difficult to play? It is Hitler's Germany wasn't very fond of jazz or because the crisis hit? Or Saxophone-like instruments from that period. The Jazzophon was not a success, like many other newly invented Switches between the two bells, one of which has a built-in wah-wah The Jazzophon is played with a trumpet-mouthpiece and has the three regular trumpet valves plus one valve Nineteen twenties as a cheap alternative to the then very Shows the possibilities of the instrument. The Jazzophon is an almost forgotten instrument, a trumpet in the shape 1 Th e Jazzophon 2 Background of the Jazzophon 3 Other sax shaped trumpets 4 Other double-bell trumpets 5 Other sax shaped instruments 6 Sources, links and contact
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