Notes on this instrument

Essentially a very big kazoo! It took me a while to find out how to play this instrument.

I was very happy to finally find a good swanee slide saxophone, in London. I was even more thrilled when I found the method book that came with it. I was in shock when I found out on the back page (seen below) that they actually made more instruments, because for me, that meant I also had to find those for my collection. Fortunately, that also worked out!

German magazine ‘Rohrblatt’ published one of my articles, in which I also talk about the Swanee instruments. You can read it here.

*the construction year of this instrument is an estimate