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New information on the Octavin

One of the more unusual instruments in our collections is an octavin. A relatively small instrument, it combines a shape almost like the boot joint of a bassoon, and a single reed like you would find in a saxophone or clarinet. Patented by Oskar Adler and Hermann Jordan in 1893, it never became popular, and […]

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