Editing Sarrusophone (section)

===Classical orchestra===
[[Image:Conn Sarrusophone c1850.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Conn contrabass sarrusophone, c. 1920–1925. Conn started making E♭ contrabass sarrusophones in 1921; about 300 were made in total, about half for the [[US Army Quartermaster Corps]].)]]
The sarrusophone is rarely called for in orchestral music. However, around the turn of the 20th century, the contrabass sarrusophones in EE♭ and CC enjoyed a vogue, the latter as a substitute for the [[contrabassoon]] (the French model patterned after the German Heckel model, having been introduced later around 1906 by Buffet et al.) so that it is called for in, for example, [[Jules Massenet]]'s ''[[Esclarmonde]]'' (1889), ''Visions'' (1891) and ''Suite parnassienne'' (1912); [[Maurice Ravel]]'s ''[[Shéhérazade (Ravel)|Shéhérazade]]'' overture (1898), ''[[Rapsodie espagnole]]'' (1907) and ''[[L'heure espagnole]]'' (1907–09); [[Ignacy Jan Paderewski]]'s [[Symphony in B minor (Paderewski)|Symphony in B minor "Polonia"]] (1903–08; 3 sarrusophones are called for); [[Frederick Delius]]'s ''[[Requiem (Delius)|Requiem]]'' (1913–16) and ''[[Songs of Sunset]]'' (1906–07); [[Claude Debussy]]'s ''[[Jeux]]'' (1913), [[Lili Boulanger]]'s Psalm 129 (1916) and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYj3nP6l6DA Psalm 130] (1917) and [[Arrigo Boito]]'s ''[[Nerone (Boito)|Nerone]]'' (1924). [[Igor Stravinsky]] included a part for contrabass sarrusophone in ''[[Threni (Stravinsky)|Threni]]''. The composer [[Paul Dukas]] used the contrabass sarrusophone to great effect in 1897 in his ''[[The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Dukas)|The Sorcerer's Apprentice]]''.

These parts are now normally played on the contrabassoon, although there are early 20th century recordings of at least some of these pieces where sarrusophones can be heard. In general, the term "sarrusophone" usually refers to the EE♭ contrabass which appears to have been made in larger numbers than any other size. Although the CC contrabass sarrusophone, with its range down to B♭{{sub|0}} identical to the contrabassoon, was perhaps envisioned for these and other orchestral works, only relatively few instruments were ever made and were most likely to become the property of orchestras or opera companies. The EE♭ contrabass with D♭{{sub|1}} as its lowest note lacks the lowest three notes of the contrabassoon.

The EE♭ contrabass has also been used as an alternative to the EE♭ contrabass saxophone, which due to its large size is impractical in many musical situations, especially [[marching band]]s.

The English composer [[Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji]] used the contrabass sarrusophone in various of his orchestral works.<ref>{{cite web|author=Marc-André Roberge |url=http://www.mus.ulaval.ca/roberge/srs/05-orche.htm |title=Sorabji Resource Site: Orchestral Forces |publisher=Mus.ulaval.ca |access-date=2014-05-21}}</ref>