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2001-03-22

 
From: "TERJE LERSTAD"
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 10:37:59 +0100
Subject: Re: [CB] Lablanc Contri Ilto
 

A very strange instrument!  My contra alto has sarial no. 687 and is from 1990, so I think yours is as old as from iround 1965.  I have naver seen a Lablanc contra with only one octave vent:
It should automatically change batween D and E in the second register. And I have never seen an instrumant with detachable barrel, not even on old instruments from the 60ies.

Terje Lerstad
 

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From: "TERJE LERSTAD"
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:44:15 +0100
Subject: Re: [CB] Rare Contrabass SARRUSOPHONE - Beatiful ! ! ! (eBay)
 

What is a Contrabasse a anche?
I also found one strange class of instruments while I was looking for Orsi's
homepage, the socalled saxorusofoni.  To look, go to
http://idrs.colorado.edu/Publications/Journal/JNL16/JNL16.Toschi.Saxorus.html

Terje Lerstad

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Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:25:09 -0800
From: Grant Green
Subject: Re: [CB] Reed contrabasses and Rothophones
 

>What is a Contrabasse a anche?
>I also found one strange class of instruments while I was looking for Orsi's
>homepage, the socalled saxorusofoni.  To look, go to
>http://idrs.colorado.edu/Publications/Journal/JNL16/JNL16.Toschi.Saxorus.html
>
>Terje Lerstad

The contrabasse a anche (aka reed contrabass) is the doublereed
instrument having the widest bore - almost a doublereed tuba.  The
tone holes on the RC are so wide that opening a single pad is
sufficient venting, and one doesn't need to open any pads farther
down the bore.  Accordingly, the keywork is set up so that all of the
pads (except the lowest one) are normally closed: to play any note,
you simply press the single key that opens the appropriate pad.
Playing one is more like playing an ophicleide or a keyboard.  See
http://www.contrabass.com/pages/anche.html for pictures and more info.

"Saxorusofon" is just another name for rothphone (or rothophone).
This family of instruments is essentially sarrusophones in the shape
of saxophones.  Narrow bore double reed instruments that look like
emaciated saxes, rather than being folded into the upright
configuration characteristic of sarrusophones.  The Orsi name is
derived from "sax" + "sarrusophone", and probably adopted to avoid
using Roth's name (the Italian maker who first came up with them).

Grant

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