François Sudre (1844–1912) was the inventor of the
sudrophone, a
brass instrument
A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by Sympathetic resonance, sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips. The term ''labrosone'', from Latin elements meani ...
resembling an
ophicleide
The ophicleide ( ) is a family of conical-bore keyed brass instruments invented in early 19th-century France to extend the keyed bugle into the lower range. Of these, the bass ophicleide in eight-foot (8′) C or 9′ B took root over the cour ...
in shape, and patented in 1892.
Born in
Carcassonne
Carcassonne is a French defensive wall, fortified city in the Departments of France, department of Aude, Regions of France, region of Occitania (administrative region), Occitania. It is the prefectures in France, prefecture of the department.
...
, southern France, he was a director of Comte et Cie., which in 1873 or 1875
[Dudgeon, Ralph Thomas (2004]
''The Keyed Bugle'', p. 268. Scarecrow Press
/ref> had acquired Halary, the instrument-maker founded by Jean Hilaire Asté in 1804, and who had patented the ophicleide in 1821.
References
19th-century French inventors
1844 births
1912 deaths
People from Carcassonne
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