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From: "William Bennett"
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 07:54:36 -0700
Subject: Re: [CB]I play for Leicester and Leicestershire Arts in Education Symphonic Wind
Band.Laura Bennett
> Out of curiosity, which counties are we talking about here?
---------------------------------------------------------Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 09:02:32 -0400
From: Bob Thomas
Subject: Re: [CB]Laura wrote:
>I play for Leicester and Leicestershire Arts in Education Symphonic Wind
>Band.oh. I mis-read county as country, & got all excited.
Always looking for low winds in odd places...
b.---------------------------------------------------------
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 08:24:16 -0700
From: David Richoux \
Subject: Re: [CB] county as country
Bob Thomas wrote:
> Laura wrote:
> >I play for Leicester and Leicestershire Arts in Education Symphonic Wind
> >Band.
>
> oh. I mis-read county as country, & got all excited.
> Always looking for low winds in odd places...
> b.I was part of a short-lived group, a spin off from Polkacide in San Francisco about
10 years ago. The instrumentation was guitar, accordion, pedal steel guitar, bari
sax, drums and tuba. We did rather faithful covers of old country trash classics and
were well received in our two public performances. We never really settled on a
name, and then the drummer blew up (Spinal Tap disease, I guess ;-) and the group
dissolved. If we had included a contrabassoon maybe we would have been famous!Dave Richoux
---------------------------------------------------------From: "James Waterhouse"
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 18:21:04 +0100
Subject: [CB]Dear Laura Bennet,
im not sure but i think mine is the same, as i have never had any lessons
for my contra, i have never been told what the notes are - ive just worked
them out for myself. as far as i can tell after playing it, it is a b flat.
but it could be something different as it is hard to tell by sound! - its
very low. thats all i can make out! but i assume it would be the same. i
have quite large hands so no problem playing it.does anyone else find it hard to switch from contra bassoon back to a normal
bassoon? i have been playing contra solidly for about a week and then tried
to change back and it feels really strange. the reeds are much smaller and
im used to contra fingerings.in reply to Dave Taylor, i play for B&NES and The West of England Schools'
orchestras although i play bassoon in these rather than contrabassoon.
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Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 18:05:41 +0100
From: David Taylor
Subject: Re: [CB]In message <>, William Bennett writes
>I play for Leicester and Leicestershire Arts in Education Symphonic Wind
>Band.Doesn't Patrick White work in Leicestershire now? He conducted the
Oxfordshire one when I was in it a few years ago.Dave
--
David Taylor
---------------------------------------------------------Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 14:40:00 -0700
From: Grant Green
Subject: [CB] Sarrusophone mp3
Just goofing around over lunch... I've just uploaded a version of Charles Mingus' "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" arranged for Eb contrabass sarrusophone and 4 bass flutes. See http://www.contrabass.com/sounds/GoodbyeHat2.mp3. One take in five passes. Its a short file...
Enjoy!
Grant
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