From: Paul Berry
Subject: Re: [CB] Heckelphone!
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 22:30:13 -0800
A sax-fingered oboe? Is that sorta like a soprano sarrusophone?
On 2005 Mar 7 , at 16:38, Grant Green wrote:
> The heckelphone is here! Spent a *great* weekend in Seattle
with
> Peter, Jay, and Arthur. Two heckelphones and a contraforte
were
> played, along with a number of other interesting
instruments (Bb
> tubax, straight bari sax [aka alphorn ad anche],
sax-fingered oboe, 2
> F-mezzo saxes, etc.).
...
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From: "Jay and Adrienne Easton"
Subject: Re: [CB] [CB Digest]
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 01:05:33 -0800
> Your description of the "alphorn ad anche" lead me to do a
quick web
> search - while exploring, I found this instrument:
And I have just posted a few photos of the infamous red
beastie...
More photos to come eventually from this weekend, unless Grant
beats me to it...
All the best,
Jay
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From: Paul Berry
Subject: Re: [CB] [CB Digest]
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 09:33:17 -0800
On 2005 Mar 9 , at 1:05, Jay and Adrienne Easton wrote:
. . .
> And I have just posted a few photos of the infamous red
beastie...
>
> unusual_saxes_page/sax_php_unusual.html
>
What I'd really like to see is a picture of it being played.
Do you stand on a chair, or at the edge of a cliff?
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Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 11:36:15 -0800
From: "Grant Green"
Subject: Re: [CB] Oboe!
>From: Paul Berry
>Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 22:30:13 -0800
>
>A sax-fingered oboe? Is that sorta like a soprano
sarrusophone?
No, this looks just like an oboe, and has an oboe bore profile:
it just has keywork that is based on the saxophone fingerings (although
not exact).
Actually, Jay had a chance to play on it - what was your opinion
Jay?
Enjoy,
Grant
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