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2001-07-20

 
From: "Jay and Adrienne Easton"
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 17:59:57 -0700
Subject: [CB] contrabass sax
 

> A contrabass sax flight case boggles the mind: sounds as awkward as
> a string bass flight coffin.  But it would be *great* to have multiple
> contrabasses there :-)  Just imagine that low Db pealing forth from
> the Wall and rolling out over the countryside...

That's EXACTLY what I was thinking! ;-)

>But if you bring a sleeping bag, think of how much you can save on hotel
>rooms by just sleeping in the case?  You can almost fit a family of four
>in a string bass case.
 
Or my wife and two cats, at any rate... Don Stevens of the Whales had a boat-maker make his contrabass flight case.  I am trying to talk Walt Johnson into tackling the project, now that he's finished his bass sax case- (which is impressively strong, BTW, and has wheels on one end...)
Wish me luck!

Jay Easton
www.jayeaston.com
 

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Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 21:36:54 -0400
From: Michael C Grogg
Subject: Re: [CB] contrabass sax
 

> >But if you bring a sleeping bag, think of how much you can save on hotel
> >rooms by just sleeping in the case?  You can almost fit a family of four
> >in a string bass case.
>
> Or my wife and two cats, at any rate... Don Stevens of the Whales
> had a boat-maker make his contrabass flight case.  I am trying to
> talk Walt Johnson into tackling the project, now that he's finished
> his bass sax case- (which is impressively strong, BTW, and has
> wheels on one end...)  Wish me luck!
>
> Jay Easton
 

Walt also builds killer Tuba cases, the only serious choice if you have
to tour with a tuba.

MG
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Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 21:20:26 -0400
From: Michael C Grogg
Subject: Re: [CB] Great wall

Dave,

Thanks for the link.  Wow, 32 museums and a botanical garden, you don't
find that in most places in the US.
 

> www.red2000.com/spain/barcelon/museum.html  ]  They have an  interesting One
> String bass and some nice old large brass and many early guitars.  their full
> catalogue is expensive and they don't speak much English.

Do they speak more German?  I noticed the website was in Spanish, English
and German, or is that just to lure in the German Tourists?  I remember
when I was in Morocco the locals seemed more fluent in German than
English because of the closer proximity and volume of tourists they saw.
I think I used German more than English the week I was there, and none of
the Arabic I had painfully tried to learn prior to that trip.
 

MG

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Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 20:30:36 -0700
From: David Richoux
Subject: Re: [CB] Great wall
 

Michael C Grogg wrote:

> Thanks for the link.  Wow, 32 museums and a botanical garden, you don't
> find that in most places in the US.
>
> > www.red2000.com/spain/barcelon/museum.html  ]  They have an
> > interesting One String bass and some nice old large brass and many early guitars.
> > their full catalogue is expensive and they don't speak much English.
>
> Do they speak more German?  I noticed the website was in Spanish, English
> and German, or is that just to lure in the German Tourists?  I remember
> when I was in Morocco the locals seemed more fluent in German than
> English because of the closer proximity and volume of tourists they saw.
> I think I used German more than English the week I was there, and none of
> the Arabic I had painfully tried to learn prior to that trip.

a lot of people in the city do speak a bit of english (and other major
languages) - it just seemed odd that no one in the museum did. Barcelona is
totally a tourist town, in a wonderful (not tacky) way - very beautiful and many
things to do and see (and eat) - one of my favorites in Europe so far.

To keep on topic, I have not found my copy of the museum catalogue yet - it is
mixed in with a lot of other books - it has small photos of most of the
collection but the included english translations are not too good...

My high school spanish (35 years ago) was not much good there as the local
dialect is nothing like what I learned - I don't even think it was actually spanish!

Dave Richoux
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From: Heliconman
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 06:44:55 EDT
Subject: Re: [CB] contrabass sax

In a message dated 7/19/01 9:38:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time, mgrogg writes:
 

>  I am trying to
> > talk Walt Johnson into tackling the project, now that he's finished
> > his bass sax case- (which is impressively strong, BTW, and has
> > wheels on one end...)  Wish me luck!
> >
> > Jay Easton
>
>
> Walt also builds killer Tuba cases, the only serious choice if you have
> to tour with a tuba.
 

How do I get in touch with Walt?
It seems that NOBODY builds helicon cases anymore!

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From: "david.rowley"
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 23:44:39 +0100
Subject: Re: [CB] Great wall

The local language in the region (Catalonia) is Catalan (not
surprisingly).  It's closer to French than Spanish, and is a purer
descendent of Latin than is Castilian, which is what is normally meant
by "Spanish".  Franco tried to get rid of the language and changed all
the names of towns to Castilian versions, but like all such attempts in
Europe during the 20th Century this was a total failure.  The culture
just disappeared underground and over the past 20 years they have
recovered their full regional identity and are putting the names back
(so the town of Rosas on is now Roses again; St Pedro Pescadore is back
to St Pere Pescadore).

Mind, they all speak "proper" Spanish as well.

David

> My high school spanish (35 years ago) was not much good there as the local
> dialect is nothing like what I learned - I don't even think it was actually spanish!
>
> Dave Richoux
 

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