Benedikt Eppelsheim

Benedikt Eppelsheim was a German instrument maker of extreme high- and low-voiced woodwind instruments. He was the inventor and exclusive manufacturer of the soprillo, a piccolo saxophone an octave above the B♭ soprano saxophone, as well as improved modern redesigns such as the tubax, which is a narrow-bored, more compact modification of the contrabass and subcontrabass saxophone, and the contraforte in collaboration with Guntram Wolf, an improved and redesigned contrabassoon. He also made standard bass and contrabass saxophones and contrabass clarinets. He built sarrusophones and subcontrabass saxophones on special order.

Benedikt Eppelsheim contrabass clarinet

Eppelsheim lived in Munich, Germany