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list Sat, 22 Aug 1998 Volume 1 : Number 66In this issue:
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- A miracle happened yesterday too!
- Re: A Miracle....
- didgeridoos
- Re: didgeridoos
- Re: didgeridoos
- Hello.
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 15:39:07 -0700
From: Grant Green <gdgreen@contrabass.com>
To: list@contrabass.com
Subject: A miracle happened yesterday too!The contra video arrived!!
For any newcomers, the contra video is a 90 minute compilation from video
shot at the 1998 Contrabassoon Festival in Las Vegas. I haven't seen it
all the way through yet, but I like what I've seen so far!Congratulations again, to Steve for producing it, and to Mark for handling
everything and making it all happen.Grant
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Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 23:09:53 -0400
From: JimKatz@JohnAbbott.qc.ca (Jim Katz)
To: <list@contrabass.com>
Subject: Re: A Miracle....That is really wonderful to hear. You have succeeded and deserve to
celebrate. Enjoy.
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Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 23:10:00 -0400
From: JimKatz@JohnAbbott.qc.ca (Jim Katz)
To: <list@contrabass.com>
Subject: didgeridoosI was originally kidding when I asked about low didgeridoos, but there are
some authentic nutcases out there . On the didgeridoo list is one lady who
is drying and preparing a 34 foot long agave stem with plans to play it. To
practise up she uses pvc pipe. Just how long a pipe can a person blow? (I
think she put the question: how slowly can you flap your lips, anyhow?)
Eight-foot bamboo didges (very large bore) are apparently not rare.
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292 Senneville Road, RR1
Senneville, Quebec
Canada, H9X 3L2----------
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Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 20:30:18 -0700
From: Grant Green <gdgreen@contrabass.com>
To: list@contrabass.com
Subject: Re: didgeridoosAt 11:10 PM 8/21/98 -0400, you wrote:
>I was originally kidding when I asked about low didgeridoos, but there are
>some authentic nutcases out there . On the didgeridoo list is one lady who
>is drying and preparing a 34 foot long agave stem with plans to play it. To
>practise up she uses pvc pipe. Just how long a pipe can a person blow? (I
>think she put the question: how slowly can you flap your lips, anyhow?)
>Eight-foot bamboo didges (very large bore) are apparently not rare.
>
Well, 8' is only euphonium range. A CC tuba is more like 16', a BBb tuba
is 18': she would have a didj in BBB. Didn't Philip Neuman play an alphorn
that was even longer?Grant
Grant Green
gdgreen@contrabass.com
http://www.contrabass.com
Just filling in on sarrusophone.......------------------------------
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 23:28:53 -0400
From: mgrogg@juno.com
To: list@contrabass.com
Cc: list@contrabass.com
Subject: Re: didgeridoos>At 11:10 PM 8/21/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>I was originally kidding when I asked about low didgeridoos, but
>there are some authentic nutcases out there . On the didgeridoo list is one
>lady who is drying and preparing a 34 foot long agave stem with plans to play
>it. To practise up she uses pvc pipe. Just how long a pipe can a person
>blow? (I think she put the question: how slowly can you flap your lips, anyhow?)
>>Eight-foot bamboo didges (very large bore) are apparently not rare.
>>
>Well, 8' is only euphonium range. A CC tuba is more like 16', a BBb
>tuba is 18': she would have a didj in BBB. Didn't Philip Neuman play an>alphorn that was even longer?
>
>GrantI have a 32' CCC hosaphone. The CC plays fairly easily, but it comes
into its own once you get above the 8th partial into the diatonic range.
On other news, I can easily play my CC tuba down to 4th valve G below CC.
Somewhere around that low G you hit the treshold where it stops sounding
like note, and more like passing gas.Michael Grogg
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Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 15:31:26 PDT
From: "Dana Sarah Cordish" <cordish@hotmail.com>
To: list@contrabass.com
Subject: Hello.Hello. I'm new to the list. I live in Israel and play bassoon and
baroque bassoon. I would love to play the contrabassoon, too, but
haven't had the opportunity, yet. At the time I stumbled across this
list I had given-up on playing the contrabassoon; but now I shall not.
There is such a thing as a baroque contrabassoon (after Eichentoph) made
by Peter de Koningh in Holland. I saw a circular advertising it that
was given-out at the Rotterdam IDRS convention. I think it is big like
a tree, played standing-up. Does it belong as an additon to your list
of contrabasses?
Secondly, a question which has probably already been discussed:
Contrabassoons range tremendously in price. From affordable to very
unaffordable. Are the cheaper ones any good; or is it only worthwhile
to buy when one has, say, won the lottery?
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