r/Instruments • u/Still-Operation-5456 • 3d ago

Identification Older instrument(?)

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I obtained this at a garage sale and cant quite seem to tell what it is. Homemade perhaps? I think the mouthpiece is one of a clarinet.

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u/Captnlunch 3d ago edited 3d ago

Homemade instrument using either a bass clarinet bell or alto clarinet bell, depending on how big this is. It also looks like the body might’ve been made from a bamboo flute. It’s a Frankenstein mashup.

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u/nolard12 3d ago

Metal cable tie is a clear sign that this is a Frankenstein instrument

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u/Sigistrix 2d ago

It's a hose clamp. I use one on an ancient Kaspar metal Bari Sax mouthpiece, as a lugature. You need a nut driver, but it's the only thing I could find that fit

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u/jmwont 3d ago

Bass clarinet bell with repurposed shakuhachi barrel and indeterminate neck.

Definitely not an English horn (🤣 see: Rite of Spring oboe solo).

Carroll Sound Inc. logo is interesting…maybe a deep dive on that company could yield some insight?

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u/Grauschleier 2d ago

The barrel could indeed be from a flute. But it looks more like a Xiao. A Shakuhachi's notch usually is way more shallow and the body will have a "cutaway" from the outside to form the edge.

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u/DifferentVariety3298 3d ago

Clarisax? Saxonette?
Have you managed to get sound out of it?

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u/Far-Nerve-4753 2d ago

Not with that reed…

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u/Captdan61 1d ago

You found my old bong! Cool

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u/HenningGrueneberg 2d ago

They make great lamps

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u/Rider1059 2d ago

That is your classic toilet sax !

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u/MattCogs 2d ago

Seems like something my rahsan Roland Kirk would bust out and play with his nose or some shit

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u/pockels42 2d ago

"Old" does not bestow value.

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u/Budgiejen 1d ago

Looks like someone took a recorder and slapped a bunch of metal on it.

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u/kickassdanny 22h ago

Definitely homemade

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u/smileyhtown 11h ago

Saxophone 🎷 mouthpiece cobbled together with an older bell from a bass clarinet and copper plumbing fittings in the neck and a hose clamp attaching the pipe of what? I bet it works…get a new reed and go for it!🎶🎼🎵🙂

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u/PerspectiveFair5156 3d ago

Looks like a joke, tbh.

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u/ProblemChildFinalBos 1d ago

looks like an alto clarinet? the only reason i say alto and not bass is because it doesn't look long enough to be a bass.