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From: Heliconman@aol.com
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 21:25:58 EST
Subject: Re: Big Bass Drum
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.comIn a message dated 02/09/2000 5:38:08 PM Eastern Standard Time,
arabushk@cowtown.net writes:<< Note that the usage "bass drum" doesn't occur in some of the Continental
languages. Thus we find various versions of "big drum" or "large
case"--German "Grosse Trommel," French "Grosse Caisse," Italian "Gran Cassa."
Note that in some of his scores Edgard Varese calls for several sizes of bass
drums. >>It's a big planet! Lots of perspectives! I was really impressed to see a drum
& bugle corp with 3 "big" drummers, if you will. Each drummer carried a rack
of two "low" drums of different pitches, one mounted over the other with a
hard shoulder yoke. The 6 drums had 6 different pitches. Nice effect!
---------------------------------------------------------Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 07:40:09 -0400
From: "Robert S. Howe" <arehow@vgernet.net>
Subject: Cabart
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.comDoes anyone know when Loree bought out the Cabart line, what exact year
was it? Was it 1982? Private replies preferred.I see that the Cabart Bass oboe on Ebay sold for $3100 and change,
that's a steal if it plays well!Robert Howe
---------------------------------------------------------From: "J. Daniel Ashton" <jdashton@bellsouth.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 14:18:19 -0500
Subject: How to tune a drum
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.comI'm stuck using a bass drum that's been abused for several years by
kids of middle- and high-school age. I figure the least I can do is
tune it.So, how?
How do I find the "correct" pitch for this drum?
I was shown many years ago how to tune timpani - moving from one nut
to the next in a star pattern around the drum. I assume that I would
use a similar technique for a bass drum, repeated for both heads. But
what frequency should I be seeking?--
J. Daniel Ashton ICQ# 9445142 mailto:jdashton@southern.edu
http://www.southern.edu/~jdashton mailto:jdashton@us.ibm.com
PGP key available send NeXTmail --> mailto:jdashton@bellsouth.net
---------------------------------------------------------Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 19:56:11 +0000 (GMT)
From: Dafydd y garreg wen <mavnw@csv.warwick.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Big Bass Drum
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.com
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Aaron J. Rabushka wrote:> Note that the usage "bass drum" doesn't occur in some of the Continental
>languages. Thus we find various versions of "big drum" or "large
>case"--German "Grosse Trommel," French "Grosse Caisse," Italian "Gran
>Cassa." Note that in some of his scores Edgard Var=E8se calls for several
>sizes of bass drums.And in Dutch 'Grote Trom'. I once sat in with our youth band at home, only
to find the Bass Trombone player playing this part! He thought it was a
bit boring, but hadn't twigged at all.Dave Taylor
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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:11:12 -0600
From: "Aaron J. Rabushka" <arabushk@cowtown.net>
Subject: Re: Big Bass Drum
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.com"Twigged"? What does that mean in Yankee-spreek? When I was playing trombone in community orchestras I was handed timpani parts on several occasions by people who couldn't distinguish "Posaune" from "Pauken."
--
Aaron J. Rabushka
arabushk@cowtown.net
http://www.cowtown.net/users/arabushk
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