GB Patent: GB-277,221
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| Improved construction of wind musical instrument
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Patentee:
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| Samuel Bowley Barnes (exact or similar names) - London, England |
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Patent Dates:
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| Applied: |
Feb. 05, 1927 |
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Sep. 15, 1927 |
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Jeff Joslin
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Description: |
| This sliding saxophone was sold by Barnes & Mullins as the "Swanee-Sax". An advertisement in "The Strand" magazine, December 1927, page 64: "The 'Swanee-Sax' Genuine Musical Instrument / Being a Slide Saxophone / gives ordinary Saxophone effects and many new ones. About half an hour's practice and you should be able to / Play With the Band. Give a Solo With Piano Accompaniment... This Instrument is British made throughout. £2:10:10 Leather-Cloth case 6/9 extra. Obtainable from all Music Dealers, or post free from Barnes & Mullins, 3, Rathbone Place, Oxford St., London, W.1". Reportedly, there were three models made, The F, B and D, which we suspect correspond to tuning in the keys of F, Bb and D, respectively.Barnes & Mullins obtained other music-instrument patents, including GB-189,711,411, GB-189,911,660, GB-190,112,038, GB-190,508,043, GB-225,411, GB-340,417, and FR-639,866. |
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