Contrabass Digest

1999-03-12

Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 19:01:25 -0500
From: Delmatto <massageglass@hocking.net>
Subject: Re: bob thomas' buescher
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.com

i have an old conn bari sax - #97,xxx with a great sound that only
goes to Eb. i've never been able to find an altissimo E or F on it.
bob thomas speaks of getting this on his buescher  bass sax.
could someone pass on what works for them?  thanks, nick delmatto

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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 20:28:30 -0500
From: Bob Thomas <thomas@usit.net>
Subject: Re: FW: Bass saxes
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.com

Edward Branham wrote:
>My Buescher bass sax is just a little earlier -- 104XXX.  I have no
>complaints or problems with it at all.  There is one intonation anomoly
>that has been true in four different bass saxes I've played.  I have
>found that middle C is both more in tune and speaks better if the
>alternate fingering is used (middle B
>plus the second side key).  That's not a fingering that is easy to hit
>in every passage, but I use it as much as practical when playing bass
>sax.

 Right,right.  That's my experience, too.  LH middle finger down
 is pretty stuffy.  I'm so used to using the alt fingering that
 I forgot to list that important item.
      b.
 

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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 20:32:17 -0500
From: Bob Thomas <thomas@usit.net>
Subject: Re: bob thomas' buescher
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.com

Nick Delmatto wrote:
>i have an old conn bari sax - #97,xxx with a great sound that only
>goes to Eb. i've never been able to find an altissimo E or F on it.
>bob thomas speaks of getting this on his buescher  bass sax.
>could someone pass on what works for them?  thanks, nick delmatto

 I'm not sure this will help much. These fingerings
 don't work on my King bari, for instance.
 If you're reading this with a fixed width font, what
 follows will look like a fingering chart. (I hope.)

 I get E with:
        * x R R = register key
   x * = LH 1st fing Eb lever slightly
   o     open.  Mine is set up so that
        the Eb will open slightly
   o     without opening the D below it.
   o
   o

 F is easier:
   x R
   o
   x

   x
   o
   o

 Probably much more helpful would be an altissimo chart
 for bari if it includes those notes. I stumbled over one
 while looking for a bass fingering chart in Saxophone
 Journal.   I'll go see if I can find it again.
      b.
 

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Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 10:02:29 -0500
From: Edward Branham <ebb@usa.net>
Subject: OT:  Internet Access Fees
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.com

For those of you watching the issue that briefly flared on the list
about a week ago, look here for a fairly complete state of the issue:
 

http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/084420.htm
 

 
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