Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:19:09 -0800 (PST)
From: Heather McCamey
Subject: [CB] Lurking
Omigosh... I didn't know that bringing a horn and playing along
at a concert was an option... this opens new doors for me (-:
-Heather
(another audience member)
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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:58:37 -0800
From: Craig
Subject: Re: [CB] Lurking
Yep. Contact the Andy Warhol Center for the Performing Arts for
more information about their freelance Soloist program. ;-)
Craig
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From: Chris Potter
Subject: [CB] new bass flute and piano piece
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 20:11:22 -0700
Contra-list,
A
new piece for bass flute and piano is now available from Falls House
Press. The composer is jazz pianist Bill Douglas. The piece is titled
"Karuna". Karuna is the Sanskrit word for compassion. This lovely
eastern-influenced piece sounds great with tabla and would be perfect
for a meditation period in a church service. I was able to convince
Bill to write out the piano part so I could put it into Finale and I
sent it off to Falls House. You're gona love it!!
Chris Potter
P. S. Don't forget the free copy of "Moderato" by Vaclav
Nelhybel for solo alto that is available on my website altoflute.net.
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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 20:15:24 -0800
From: David F.
Subject: Re: [CB] [CB Digest]
> David Flager wrote "I generally lurk..."
>
> David, please don't think of yourself as a lurker.
Think of yourself as the audiance. If you go to a concert, you
don't call yourself a lurker just because you didn't bring an
instrument so you could play along. They have other words for
people who like to play along, but never mind my problems. Chime
in when you have the urge and know that we enjoy having you read our
stuff.
>
> Jim Lande
LOL....... point taken. I'll be mindful of my whimsical style of
expression.
David F.
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From: "Sung Hwang Wang"
Subject: [CB] Makers of Contra Clarinets
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 21:34:00 -0800
Hello all, I am contemplating doing some historical research on
contra clarinets and would appreciate some help from you in order to
get started.
Part of my research would be collective primary data from contra
clarinet makers, past and present. I would appreciate if anyone
could point out what makers, other than the ones listed below, that I
might have overlooked:
- Selmer Paris: contra-alto, contrabass
- Selmer USA: contra-alto
- Leblanc France: contra-altos, contrabasses
- Leblanc USA (Vito): contra-alto, contrabass
- Buffet Crampton: contra-alto, contrabass (now discontinued?)
- L. A. Ripamonti: contra-alto, contrabass
- Orsi: contra-alto, contrabass
Any other makers? What about German makers?
Willy
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From: "Gordon Hallgren"
Subject: Re: [CB] Makers of Contra Clarinets
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 01:12:22 -0500
Well, i have an update on the Buffet line for you. Received this
yesterday:
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Buffet Crampon is now developing a contra bass clarinet and we
expect to get a prototype by the end of this year. Therefore it may not
be manufactured before a year and a half or two.
Best regards,
Fabienne CARNAVIN
Sales Administration Manager
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cheers!
gordon
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Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 00:50:48 -0800 (PST)
From: Andrew Phillips
Subject: Re: [CB] Makers of Contra Clarinets
I think that Linton made one, more specifically that interesting
bass sax-shaped one. They may have just stuck their name on it
though.
--Andrew Phillips
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From: "John Kilpatrick"
Subject: Re: [CB] [CB Digest]
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:27:42 -0000
> Our buddy on Ebay seems to be back again. Going by
the username of
> coryjuka.
He's been pulled (and before any of the items I've set up as
"favourites" were emailed to me). Did someone on this forum report it?
John K
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From: Michael
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:03:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [CB] [CB Digest]
>> Our buddy on Ebay seems to be back again. Going
by the username of
>> coryjuka.
>
>He's been pulled (and before any of the items I've set up as
"favourites" were emailed to me). Did someone on this forum report it?
>John K
I navigated the safetyharbor stuff and reported him, and several
others on the tuba list did as well. I did get an automated
response from an inquiry I sent. Makes for interesting
reading. He wants all payments handled through an escrow
site. I checked that too. Only way to make a transaction
through the escrow site is by email links. Smells badly of
seafood from top to bottom.
Michael
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From: "Peter Boris Koval"
Subject: Re: [CB] Makers of Contra Clarinets
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:08:16 -0300
You forgot the originator: Adolphe Sax.
I posted some information on his contrabass clarinets on this
list several years ago--perhaps you can find it in the archives
Peter Koval
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sung Hwang Wang"
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 2:34 AM
Subject: [CB] Makers of Contra Clarinets
> Hello all, I am contemplating doing some historical
research on contra
> clarinets and would appreciate some help from you in order
to get started.
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Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 09:46:25 -0600
From: "Gregg Bailey"
Subject: [CB] Fontaine-Besson contrabass clarinet?
About makers of contra clarinets, I photocopied a page out of an
old book about musical instruments at a library several years ago, and
there is a BBb contrabass clarinet pictured that has several bends in
the tube (the straight sections are wood, the curves are metal).
The caption says that it's a Fontaine-Besson contra. Does this
gel with anyone else's knowledge?
-Gregg
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Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 07:51:21 -0900
From: Tim Johnson
Subject: Re: [CB] Makers of Contra Clarinets
Sung Hwang Wang wrote:
> Hello all, I am contemplating doing some historical
research on contra
> clarinets and would appreciate some help from you in order
to get
> started.
I have a book here : "History of Woodwind Instruments" by
Anthony Baines. (packed away someplace
and not readily accessible, but I've read it more than once.)
It was published prior to 1970, I believe.
There is a reference to a Huler Contrabass Clarinet and a
photograph. The photograph shows a "straight" design with a wooden body
and metal bell and neck The instrument is described as being 57 inches
tall and having only the low E (or is it Eb?). It's performance, range
and tonality are described in glowing terms.
tim
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From: "Peter Boris Koval"
Subject: Re: [CB] Fontaine-Besson contrabass clarinet?
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:14:32 -0300
Several still exist in museums. I have seen the one at the
Horniman Museum in London. It has very fragile keys. In his book The
Clarinet, Geffrey Rendall is very critical of the Besson Fontaine
model, stating that it was of defective design because of conicity in
the bocal (the metal tube between mouthpiece and body). Not having had
the chance to play the instrument, I cannot say anything about the
intonation.
Regards,
Peter Koval
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