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I am genuinely unsure, given (in particular) the recent scholarship of Eugenia Mitroulia; her 2011 PhD thesis and other published work is cited in the 2019 Cambridge Encyclopedia of Brass Instruments, and she has written several entries for it: Sax family, saxhorn, saxotromba, cornophone, Distin, patents, etc. It seems that while the saxotromba was conceived of as an entire family, only the tenor horn and baritone horn were produced in any quantity; and the Saxhorn is somewhat vaguely defined and based on pre-existing instruments; and split into two lines (essentially the soprano to baritone as one line, originally using the early Berlin valve, and another larger-bore line from essentially the B♭ euphonium ("bass saxhorn") down to what we now know as the E♭ and B♭ bombardons ("basses" in British brass bands, or band tubas). I wonder if we should merge or perhaps re-arrange the information in the saxhorn and saxotromba articles, and for that matter, the individual instruments; there is also a need for more (and better) citations, and less is more (we can move chunks of articles to better places, reduce repeptition, use section headings, and then use {{main}} and its cousins to refer the reader appropriately. — Jon (talk) 04:45, 12 April 2023 (UTC)Reply
