A saxonette is a soprano clarinet in C, B♭, or A that has both a curved barrel and an upturned bell, both usually made of metal.
It has the approximate overall shape of a saxophone, but unlike that instrument it has a cylindrical bore and overblows by a twelfth.
[citation needed] The J.W Pepper company produced similar instruments at this time branded "Claribel".
In 1923 the Gretsch Musical Instrument Company advertised a new invention called the Saxonette,[4] which was identical to Buescher's Clariphon.
[citation needed] Instruments have also emerged branded 'Supertone', a trade name of Sears, Roebuck & Company, which may also be stencils of Buescher or Couesnon.