Mullerphone

Mullerphone a variety of contrabassoon invented by Louis Muller of Lyon and patented on March 3, 1855, with bassoon-shaped parallel tubes, a metal bell, and cylindroconical bore. The pitch was an oct. below that of the bassoon. No surviving specimen is known (89 Langwill, 169, 204). Sort by:DefaultTitleDateAuthorAscendingDescending Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5th edition. London, 1954. Sachs, Curt. Handbuch der Musikinstrumentenkunde. Leipzig, 1920. Wright, Rowland. Dictionnaire…