Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 18:37:08 -0500
Subject: Re: [CB] [CB Digest]
From: Robert Howe
on 12/16/04 6:30 PM, List Server wrote:
> I'll be there, with contrabass sarrusophone as usual. My
daughter now says she
> wants to come, and play my bass sarrusophone. Who knows?
Hey Grant, sounds like fun. What makes are these two
Sarrusphones? It is interesting that you bring them to the
Saxophone Christmas, given that Gautrot's invention of the sarrusophone
was a blatant rip-off of Sax.
I seek a Couesnon Eb contrabass sarrusophone to copy the bocal,
mine is from 1923. I also have a Conn Eb contra, Gautrot Bb and C
bass, and an Orsi soprano.
Ciao
Robert Howe
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From: "Jay and Adrienne Easton"
Subject: [CB] SJ Sax Christmas
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 16:02:23 -0800
> The 11th annual San Jose Saxophone Xmas is Saturday, 12/18.
Is anyone else
> going? I'll be there, with contrabass sarrusophone as
usual. My daughter
> now says she wants to come, and play my bass sarrusophone.
I wish I could be there- I had great fun the last two years, and
I really hope to be back next year. I have a gig conflict here in
Seattle though, and to add insult to injury, I'm not even playing a big
instrument on the show! (It's almost all clarinet, with a few tunes on
bass clarinet to make me feel a little better... I even get one low C.)
Anyway, I am glad Blaise has things well in hand on the
contrabass end!
I can see it now: A tubax, a contrabass sax, and two
sarrusophones walk into a bar...
Have a great time, and I will be thinking fondly on Saturday of
the sounds of massed and massive saxophones...
All the best,
Jay
"Don't live your life at mezzo-forte!"
-Harold Warman
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Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 19:07:26 -0500
Subject: Re: [CB] [CB Digest]
From: Timothy J Tikker
On Thursday, December 16, 2004, at 06:30 PM, List Server
wrote:
> The 11th annual San Jose Saxophone Xmas is Saturday, 12/18.
Is anyone
> else going? I'll be there, with contrabass sarrusophone as
usual. My
> daughter now says she wants to come, and play my bass
sarrusophone.
> Who knows?
Ah, you raised her well!
- Tim Tikker
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From: "Sarah Cordish"
Subject: [CB] Copy of bocal.
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 09:48:48 +0200
Robert,
Who did you find to copy a sarrusophone bocal? I have an
Eb Conn contrabass with an "somewhat artisitc" bocal and would like a
copy made which is straighter.
Appreciate your help.
Sarah
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Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 13:11:39 -0800
From: "Grant Green"
Subject: Re: [CB] SJSaxmas
Inspired by the saxophone, certainly. Designed to compete with
the saxophone, definitely. Rip-off? Not to denigrate the saxophone, but
Sax didn't invent Boehm fingering, nor conical bores. In patent law, we
call that "designing around" the invention.
Anyway, the San Jose Saxophone Xmas accepts the sarrusophone as
an addition to the underrepresented low register, "close enough for
jazz." ;-)
Mine are: Gautrot-Marquet Eb contra; Triebert Bb bass; and Orsi
Bb tenor. Does the Conn bocal not fit your Couesnon?
Enjoy!
Grant
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Sarrusophones & contrabass winds
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Subject: RE: [CB] SJSaxmas
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 15:16:14 -0800
From: "Grannes, Dean"
Grant,
What time and where is the concert tomorrow? The website I
found must have been from last year, as it talks about its happening on
Saturday, 12/20. Please send a schedule and location, as I would
like to watch.
Thanks,
Dean
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Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 15:42:07 -0800
From: "Grant Green"
Subject: RE: [CB] SJSaxmas
There are two performances: the first is at 2:00 PM at
"Christmas in the Park" on North 1st St. in San Jose. The second will
be at 5 PM at ... a shopping mall somewhere. Usually this is Eastridge
Mall in San Jose, but I have a vague recollection that it will be at
Valley Fair instead this year. I'll ask Ray and report back.
For anyone interested in joining us, rehearsal is 9-12 on
Saturday morning at Monroe Middle School, 1055 S. Monroe St., San Jose.
You can reach Ray at saxophon@yahoo.com.
Enjoy!
Grant
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