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The baritone first appeared around the early 1800’s. The first baritone really was not a baritone at all; it was more like a tuba. The serpent, as it was called, was a wooden instrument with a brass style mouthpiece and holes, where your fingers go, like a clarinet. But the baritone really began to take shape with the invention of the saxhorn. In the middle of the 1800's Adolph Sax developed a range of brass instruments, which he called saxhorns. The saxhorns were not that different from today’s baritones. They had the same number pf valves and the bell size was relatively the same but what separated the baritone from the saxhorn was that the saxhorn was that it was taller and slimmer. Some even over the shoulder saxhorns, as they were called, resembled a trombone with valves. However, throughout the years, the saxhorn began to fade and the baritone took its place. Some famous Baritone horn performers are Leonard Falcone, Brian Bowman and Rich Matteson.
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