Rockin’ Patent – Couesnon Et Cie’s “Toy Saxophone”
Rockin’ Patent: French Patent No. 569,294 Filed: 1 August 1923 In the name of: Couesnon Et Cie Title: Toy Saxophone What’s claimed: (please note this is a machine translation from French into English) “The arrangement of notes which reproduces the keyboard of a piano in its part which corresponds to the fundamental octave and overflowing more or less towards the upper and lower octaves.” Why this patent rocks: This patent appears to relate to the ‘Couesnophone’, a free-reed musical instrument resembling a saxophone harmonicor, created by the French manufacturer Couesnon. It is also known as the ‘queenophone’ or more commonly […]
