Northwest Musical Instrument Company

Northwest Musical Instrument Company NMI - was founded because of the need for local music stores that carry a wide range of REAL musical instruments: trumpets, trombones, french horns, clarinets, flutes, saxophones, violins, cellos, stringed basses and tubas. We started out as an antique selling company specializing in unusual and non typical furniture, collectibles and used musical instruments. This is still an important part of the business, shopping should always be fun!

Sunday, January 31, 2010

The Eb Sopranino

The Eb Sopranino is one of the less common members if the sax family.

The Sopraninio is half an octave higher then the soprano saxophone. The soprano saxophone it usually pitched in Bb while the Sopranino saxophone is almost always in Eb.

Though the Sopranino is very high pitched it is not the highest of the Saxophone family, that honor goes to the Bb Soprillo, a full octave higher than the soprano, a very rare sax indeed.

The Sopranino I think makes a great addition to any sax players collection, it is a lot of fun to play and since it is unique you will get much attention.