Soprillo

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The soprillo, also known as the piccolo saxophone or rarely sopranissimo saxophone, is the highest pitched and smallest saxophone. The soprillo was developed as a piccolo extension to the saxophone family in the late 1990s by the German instrument maker Benedikt Eppelsheim, although a working prototype sopranissimo of the same pitch was made in 1960 in a more compact, curved form. The soprillo is pitched in B♭, one octave above the soprano saxophone, and half its length, at 33 centimetres (13 in) including the mouthpiece.

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