Soprillo
- Date
- 1999 · confidence high
- Place
- Munich, Bavaria, Germany
- Credited to
- Benedikt Eppelsheim
- Field
- Tools
What it is
The smallest, highest-pitched member of the saxophone family, pitched in B-flat an octave above the soprano, developed as a piccolo extension of the saxophone by German instrument maker Benedikt Eppelsheim.
What it led to
- expansion of the high register available in the saxophone family
- use in avant-garde contemporary compositions
- boost to artisanal construction of unconventional wind instruments