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1998-07-17

 
list                           Fri, 17 Jul 1998           Volume 1 : Number 33

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Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 01:33:18 EDT
From: <DUNKLPAP@aol.com>
To: list@contrabass.com
Subject: contralto query

hi,
Could anyone tell me the usual range of the contralto clarinet?
I often see them advertised as "range down to low Eb".
Is that Eb natural or Eb in the key of Eb?

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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 22:56:36 -0700
From: "S.K. Pasisozis" <pasisozi@swlink.net>
To: list@contrabass.com
Subject: Re: contralto query

Normally, lowest notes for woodwinds are the WRITTEN pitch. The lowest note
for a D-flat piccolo is still D, for a soprano clarinet E, for an English
Horn B (though some models with low B-flat exist.) Saxophones stop at
written low B-flat, though some baris are available on special order with a
low A.

>hi,
>Could anyone tell me the usual range of the contralto clarinet?
>I often see them advertised as "range down to low Eb".
>Is that Eb natural or Eb in the key of Eb?
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Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 02:23:34 EDT
From: <DUNKLPAP@aol.com>
To: list@contrabass.com
Subject: what the...

Hey, one time a few months ago I was strolling along throught the local
library when i came across a nice book about musical instruments. Therein lay
photos of some crazy instruments. Some of which included keyed brass, a
microtonal, 24 note octave bass clarinet to name a couple. One thing that
really sticks out however was something called the octobassophone. It looked
like a bassoon suffering from gigantism. It was a double-reeded, wooden
instrument with a very large bore. It was noted in the book to have been
invented in order to strengthen the sound of the contrabassoon. Unfortunately
the book did not mention any pieces written for or including it. I'm sort of
wondering why I've never read any type of comment or discussion about this
animal. Has anyone else ever heard of this thing?

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Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 14:06:26 +0000
From: Kilmer <mc17@duluth.infi.net>
To: list@contrabass.com
Subject: Company Question

Which instrument company makes the lowest-priced Bass-Contrabass Flutes
& clarinets?
I'm considering purchase of one and must know the best way to get them.

Anyone have an idea?

        -John

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Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 13:54:50 -0700
From: Grant Green <gdgreen@contrabass.com>
To: list@contrabass.com
Subject: Re: contralto query

At 01:33 AM 7/17/98 EDT, you wrote:
>hi,
>Could anyone tell me the usual range of the contralto clarinet?
>I often see them advertised as "range down to low Eb".
>Is that Eb natural or Eb in the key of Eb?
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That is the *written* Eb, sounding concert Gb on the Eb contralto.  Leblanc
also makes an Eb contralto with range down to (written) C, sounding concert Eb.

Grant

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Grant D. Green                    gdgreen@contrabass.com
http://www.contrabass.com/
Filling in on sarrusophone
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Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 20:55:18 -0400
From: jimkatz@JohnAbbott.qc.ca (Jim Katz)
To: <list@contrabass.com>
Subject: 3-D & Contrabass connection?

Hmm. I notice by a recent message yet a third person on the Contrabass list
who also dabbles in stereo photography. What's the connection? Maybe all
those low-frequency vibrations make us see double?

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Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 19:52:42 -0700
From: musicstr@supernet.ab.ca
To: list@contrabass.com
Subject: Re: 3-D & Contrabass connection?

I have been facinated with the idea of sterio photography for a long time.
Where are the resources? Are there any Internet groups devoted to it? How
does one get started?
Bass lovers crave perspective!?!?

Dennis
musicstr@supernet.ab.ca
(the guy with the Heckelphone and Bass Oboe for sale or trade; collecting
mainly saxophones!)

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