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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 06:47:20 -0500
From: michael c grogg <mgrogg@juno.com>
Subject: Re: [CB] CC Sousa???
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.com> Has anyone ever heard of a C sousaphone before?
No, but I have a CC helicon, Italian made 1860-1865. The Italians also
made tenor trombones in C, and I believe C clarinets as well.MG
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---------------------------------------------------------From: "....rich haynes" <rich_haynes@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 16:13:25 EST
Subject: Re: [CB] Contra Bass Clarinet vs Contralto Clarinet
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.comhey grant, just a quick question about the contra's altissimo range.....on
my contra(bass) it really only sounds good till Db (above the treble staff)
so are you saying its possible to get higher and not sound really really
bad? any fingering charts anywhere for those notes?
also any charts for bass clarinet above super C?
thanks in advance for your help!
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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 05:22:44 -0500
From: Topper <leo_g@carroll.com>
Subject: Re: [CB] CC Sousa???
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.comAt 06:47 AM -0500 3/22/00, michael c grogg wrote:
>> Has anyone ever heard of a C sousaphone before?
>
>No, but I have a CC helicon, Italian made 1860-1865. The Italians also
>made tenor trombones in C, and I believe C clarinets as well.
>
>MG
Well that makes sense becausethey are always saying the word Si,Si Si
everywhere they go!:)
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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 13:32:26 -0500
From: John Howell <John.Howell@vt.edu>
Subject: [CB] CC Sousa???
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.com>On 3/22/00, Grant Green asks:
>>Has anyone ever heard of a C sousaphone before?
>Amati claims their ASH 262A is a CC/BBb sousie. See:
>http://www.amati.cz/english/production/instruments/psousaphones.htm
>Cheers,
>ChuckUnfortunately no picture of that one, but no reason to doubt it, either.
Their tuba page lists F, Eb, CC & BBb. And did you notice that they have a
full line of helicons as well? (Two pictures, one of an F and one of a
BBb.)John
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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 10:45:46 -0700
From: Grant Green <gdgreen@contrabass.com>
Subject: Re: [CB] Contra Bass Clarinet vs Contralto Clarinet
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.com>hey grant, just a quick question about the contra's altissimo
>range.....on my contra(bass) it really only sounds good till Db
>(above the treble staff) so are you saying its possible to get
>higher and not sound really really bad? any fingering charts
>anywhere for those notes?Yes, with practice. I've only taken my Leblanc 340 up to the
altissimo F#. I suspect that it *could* go higher, but haven't yet
gotten it there. I finger the notes just as I would for a soprano
clarinet, but without trying to vent LH1. For notes above altissimo
D, it helps to also press RH3: this switches the octave vent over
from the upper vent to the lower vent, which works better in the
altissimo.>also any charts for bass clarinet above super C?
>thanks in advance for your help!
>rich.I don't have anything on bass clarinet, but I'll bet that Shouryu can
suggest something...Grant
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