Contrabass Digest

2001-12-01

Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 16:25:29 -0800
From: Grant Green
Subject: Re: [CB] electroWho-cardioshnoox
 

>Range?  Transposition?  Beats me-  I have yet to find any reference
>to this mysterious instrument in any of my orchestration or
>instrumentation texts...

What did they use in the movie?

Ah, where's Andrew Stiller when you need him?  ;-)

Grant

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Sarrusophones, contrabass reeds, &
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Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 16:45:57 -0800
From: Grant Green
Subject: Re: Subject: [CB] Sarrusophone FS!
 

>However, I hope someone let him know that he could have probably got
>Christies or Southeby's to auction it for him...for it is quite a
>collection the he is selling with some fairly important pieces.  If he
>is trying to raise cash, his "for sale list" would do very well if sold
>via that avenue.

I'm sure that quite a few, if not all, of the horns would sell at
auction.  However, both Christie's and Sotheby's have significant
fees - he wouldn't necessarily make more net.  Still, always an
option for anything that doesn't sell by this route.

>Too bad there was no Ab clarinet - one of my pipe dreams is to someday
>one of those funny little instruments :)

I wouldn't be surprised if he has one, but probably not any spares...

Grant

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Grant Green
Sarrusophones, contrabass reeds, &
other brobdignagian acoustic exotica             http://www.contrabass.com
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From: MVinquist
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 11:28:43 EST
Subject: [CB] Ab Clarinets; Bass Sax Reed Trimmer

Graham Nasby says: Too bad there [Robert Howe's sales list has] no Ab
clarinet - one of my pipe dreams is to someday one of those funny little
instruments :)

Leblanc makes a Boehm system Ab, but I've tried one and haven't been able to
get my fingers on it.  My hands are big, but my fingers are medium width.
One of the books -- Baines or Rendall, I think -- notes this and says the
instruments are made with "simple system" fingering for that reason.

Schwenk & Seggelke offers a simplified German system instrument, in either G
(for Schrammel-musik) or Ab.  There's a description and a photo at
<http://www.schwenk-und-seggelke.de/englisch/preislistemodern/info_m_5f.htm>
, and it looks possible, if you're willing to use German fingerings.  I seem
to remember that Orsi or Amati also makes them.

The Leblanc goes for an outrageous price -- around $5,000, as I recall.  One
appeared on eBay a couple of times this year but didn't meet reserve at over
$3,000.  The S&S price is 3,000 Euros, or $2,686.20 at today's exchange rate.

If you had a time machine and could go back 30 years, Charlie Ponte had some
Ab stencils made by, I think Amati, for the New York World's Fair band and
was selling them for around $150.  I didn't get one, because I couldn't get
my fingers on it, either.

Oh yes -- the contra connection.  Does anyone know of a reed trimmer for bass
sax reeds?  How about Vandoren contrabass sax reeds?

Best regards.

Ken Shaw
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