Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 18:43:46 -0800
From: "Grant Green"
Subject: [CB] Contra Patent
Hi,
Just happened to run across a relatively recent patent, US
6,765,138 (issued on July 20, 2004), which claims a register system for
contrabassoon. Inventors: Arlen Fast, and Thomas J. Owen, Jr.
Chip, is that yours? If so, congratulations!
Enjoy,
Grant
--
================================
Grant Green Contrabass.com
Sarrusophones & contrabass winds
**NOTE NEW ADDRESS**
================================
--
---------------------------------------------------------
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 06:36:53 -0500
From: Chip Owen
Subject: Re: [CB] Contra Patent
Yep, that's mine. Arlen and I are the co-inventors.
It was kind of amusing when the patent attorney first got our
stuff. Of course, he claimed that his search would uncover all
sorts of patent references--no new invention was so obscure that there
weren't a bunch of precedents. Later he admitted that there was
almost nothing under the topic of contrabassoons.
---------------------------------------------------------
From: "Jay and Adrienne Easton"
Subject: Re: [CB] [CB Digest]
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 12:30:06 -0800
>> Have we had any world leaders who played contrabass
anything?
>>
>> Jim
>> America can do better: Sue Nigro in 2004!
Before his election, US President Warren Harding (1921-23)
organized the Citizen's Cornet Band in Ohio, available for both
Republican and Democratic rallies; "I played every instrument but the
slide trombone and the E-flat cornet," he once remarked.
I guess this would include bass and contrabass register brass
and probably a few low woodwinds...
Also, I have heard the King of Thailand is an accomplished
saxophonist- he may well play baritone or even bass sax, but I am only
speculating about this.
Jay Easton
"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with
their own government." --Thomas Jefferson
But what happens when the people are mis-informed?
---------------------------------------------------------
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 22:23:16 +0100
Subject: Re: [CB] [CB Digest]
From: Klaus Bjerre <
Jay Easton
> Also, I have heard the King of Thailand is an accomplished
saxophonist- he
> may well play baritone or even bass sax, but I am only
speculating about this.
That rather would be the recently abdicated king of Cambodia.
> "Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted
with
> their own government." --Thomas Jefferson
>
> But what happens when the people are misinformed?
Funny that you present this quote exactly today. We have just
seen the result of a such situation.
Klaus
---------------------------------------------------------
From: "John Kilpatrick"
Subject: Re: [CB] [CB Digest]
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 22:51:07 -0000
> Can any of you tell me how I could have a bass clarinet or
even alto
> clarinet constructed such that it would be completely
straight and
> exactly proportional in every way to a Bb clarinet?
Of course, the
> keywork would have to be more like the keywork found on
already existing
> bass clarinets, but that is the ONLY thing I would want to
be different
> from a Bb.
If it were proportional, the holes would be proportionally
larger and proportionally further apart - twice, in fact. This would
affect the cut-off frequency (see Arthur Benade, "Fundamentals of
Musical Acoustics"; I'm not sure if it would halve the cut-off - I
can't check as I've lent the book out). So it probably wouldn't sound
the way you wanted.
John K
***End of Contrabass Digest***