c. 1860
A carte de visite by Henry A. Hose of Watertown, N.Y. shows a civil war-era soldier with a four-valve E-flat over-the-shoulder bass saxhorn (see below; public domain).
A carte de visite by Henry A. Hose of Watertown, N.Y. shows a civil war-era soldier with a four-valve E-flat over-the-shoulder bass saxhorn (see below; public domain).