Late this past fall the Center had its 1904 Couesnon contrabass sarrusophone restored by Carl Thacker, who works on instrument restorations in Bloomington, Illinois. For those who have never seen or heard a sarrusophone, it is a special music dinosaur that was patented and produced by Pierre Louis Gautrot (d. 1882) beginning in 1856. It […]
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