Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 16:23:40 -0800
From: David Flager
Subject: Re: [CB] [CB Digest]
>"Lelia Loban,
>Are you watching Big Brother?"
APPLAUSE!!!!!! to all Contra theories. Great reading.
It's a shame I couldn't share this stuff with my non musical
friends, without having to explain everything.
LOL truly!
David Flager
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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 17:04:34 -0800
From: Craig
Subject: Re: [CB] [CB Digest]
Don't forget the Special Theory of Contra Clarinets, which
predicts that smaller instruments will be devoured if they approach too
closely. Just thought I would weigh in and interject some gravity... ;-)
Craig
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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 20:12:57 -0500
Subject: Re: [CB] [CB Digest]
From: Timothy Tikker
On Friday, February 25, 2005, at 06:33 PM, List Server wrote:
> Oskar Kroll was either biased or ignorant about the efforts
of Adophe Sax
> when he wrote that Sax tried to develop a contrabass
clarinet in the 1840s
> and failed. Sax took out a couple of patents that included
contrabass
> clarinets in Eb and Bb and instruments subsequently were
included in price
> lists with illustrations.
Very interesting! Wonder why it didn't catch on more then?
I sense from the text that Kroll was in the former East
Germany. Perhaps that slanted his viewpoint on certain issues...?
- TT
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From: Eric
Subject: [CB] Contrabassoon of the Northwoods! :-)
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 02:04:40 GMT
Boy, am I pumped!
Our Bemidji (MN) Symphony Orchestra imported a contrabassoonist
from the Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN) for our concert Sunday
afternoon at 3pm!
I have never seen a CB before, nor have I ever really heard one
"up close and personal" before. And I would guess that no one has
ever heard a CB in Bemidji proper, either.
We're doing Beethoven's 5th, plus Max Bruch's 1st(?) Violin
Concerto. And why I can't think of our opening piece defies my
imagination, except for the fact that I've been up since 4:30am!
Playing string bass (low C attachment, of course! :-) ) will be
a treat! Now to concentrate on MY part, instead of the violin
soloist and the contrabassoon...
Eric in
MN
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From: Richard Spittel
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 12:34:59 EST
Subject: Re: [CB] Contrabassoon of the Northwoods! :-)
In a message dated 2/25/05 9:05:19 PM Eastern Standard Time,
Eric writes:
<< And I would guess that no one has ever heard a CB in
Bemidji proper, either. >>
I know that's not the case. I remember when I was in one
of the army bands in DC, we toured through Minnesota, and gave a couple
of concerts in Bemidji. One was a school concert at the high
school, and I played Fucik's "The Old Bear with the Sore Head" as a
contra solo with the band. I remember the extremes of emotions I
felt that day - from playing the solo in the morning (high) to
driving around Central Minnesota that afternoon trying to find Lake
Wobegon, only to discover it wasn't there (low)(sigh)(grin).
Richard Spittel
Baltimore, MD
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