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2004-11-08

 
From: ulrich drechsler
Subject: [CB]  new bass clarinet recording with Monk tunes
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 09:20:18 +0100

Dear group members,

We've just released our new Live CD "The Monk In All Of Us"!!!! It containes music composed by the great jazz piano player/composer  Thelonious Monk and we've recorded it live in June 2004 at Vienna's famous  jazz club Porgy&Bess.

The setup:

You can check it out on the label's homepage www.crackedanegg.com There you'll find the detailed track list, a few mp3-files and of course you can order it directly.

For the mouthpiece maniacs: I've used a custom made crystal Pomarico bassclarinet mouthpiece with a tip opening of 2,90mm together with Marca reeds #2 1/2 and a Clark Fobes contrabass mouthpiece

best wishes from Vienna,

Uli Drechsler

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Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 04:57:02 -0500
From: BJacobs
Subject: Re: [CB] [CB Digest]


I have always been told a Bb clarinet is so called because when you play what you think of as a C it sounds Bb. The Eb clarinets play Eb when you play what you think of as a C.

>>>>>>>>
>Klaus wrote:
> I cannot disagree much with you. Only  the whole nomenclatura in the
> clarinet world is wrong.
> The standard so-called Bb clarinet as found in so many bands never was a Bb
> instrument. It is an Eb instrument with an extension allowing for a low D
> concert. Much in style with a B-foot flute.
>
The clarinet (or clarionet) is named so because it can play in the "clarion"
register. In this register the existing naming is correct.
John K
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From: "John Kilpatrick"
Subject: Re: [CB] [CB Digest]
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 11:03:13 -0000


>Re ebay straight models: These auctions are completely real, I assure you. I am an eBay Platinum
>powerseller with over 1300 positive feedbacks and no negatives. If you
>are uneasy and want to talk to me personally, please send me your phone
>number at the_mighty_quinn@msn.com<mailto:the_mighty_quinn@msn.com> >

Thanks - I removed a "3D" from before the item number. I don't know why I
failed to find them on a search (they come up OK on www.ebay.co.uk ). Like
all members on this list, I like to keep an eye on things!

>Also re one-piece versus pull-apart.
I have to agree with Lelia that taking a paperclip apart and putting it together, especially in crowded and hurried circumstances, is troublesome. The worst thing - which I forecast doing some time back, and have now done - is losing the nut that holds the two parts together. I've found another that works, only because the thread is short and any pitch discrepancy is small. I think someone in the past has shoe-horned a UNC#4 machine screw into the pillar, that probably has some other thread (metric?); at any rate, I can't get the screw out. Terje responded to a question on this some weeks ago (thanks), but I'd still like to hear from anyone who knows what this thread is really supposed to be.
John K



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From: "Lelia Loban"
Subject: [CB] [CB Digest]
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 07:35:52 -0500

Matthew Stoecker wrote,
>These auctions are completely real, I assure you.

Fred wrote,
>>There is also a problem with incompatible mail programs. 
>>Yours uses html....

Yes.  There's a larger problem, too: several people besides Matt are sending mail in html mime format that makes a nearly-unreadable mess of the Digest form of the list.  When the list server automatically converts all these various formats to plain text, gobbledygook appears at the beginning and the end all of the links sent in mime, and then your mail appears twice, the second time at grossly expanded length, mixed in with all kinds of code that's visible as text.  It's not so bad to get a single e-mail in this format -- just delete everything below the signature -- but a whole Digest full of this mime gibberish is annoying and unnecessarily time-consuming to sort through and read.  Please check your e-mail "send" settings.  If everybody would snip only the parts of the mail to which you want to reply (instead of replying to the whole digest), and then send your e-mail to the list via the "plain text" option, you'd be doing the rest of us a big favor.  Thanks!

Lelia Loban
Defend science.  Defend the truth. 
Defeat lies.  Defeat superstition.



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From: "Gordon Hallgren"
Subject: Re: [CB] [CB Digest]
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 09:55:25 -0500


when did they (Leblanc) stop making the split paperclip contrabass? mine is a 1964 model and it's in one piece.

gordon


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