From: "John Kilpatrick"
Subject: [CB] scammer
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 18:54:51 +0100
I've just reported our old friend the persistent ebay scammer,
now kpliker8092171se with 474 dud items including 340 and 342 at $1
each.
John K.
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From: "Kevin Highley2"
Subject: [CB] Cheap contra on Ebay
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 18:06:09 +0100
eBay item 4376405013 looks very interesting - Too good to be
true?
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Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:09:19 -0500
From: "Gregg Bailey"
Subject: Re: [CB] Cheap contra on Ebay
Well, the picture looks like an extended range bass clarinet.
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Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:35:00 -0500
From: "Gregg Bailey"
Subject: Re: [CB] PVC Contrabass Clarinet
Dear Michael Nuttall and list,
I am sorry to report that I never made any sound clip examples
and never took any pictures of my 128' PVC quadruple-octo-contrabass
clarinet experiment. Although the thing is still completely
assembled in my apartment against a wall, I don't have my own
contrabass clarinet mouthpiece. Back when I built this thing, I
was playing contras in school and therefore would use one of the
school's mouthpieces on my experiment. Now that I am no longer
playing contra, I don't have access to a mouthpiece to play tones on my
experiment.
I don't even know how to create sound clips for the internet
even if I DID have a mouthpiece to play it with.
I have to say that sound clips would probably only be successful
down to a certain number of sections of tubing, because the tone
probably starts to get too soft at a certain depth of frequency for
multimedia use. If I had a mouthpiece, I would put some research
into creating sound clips of it.
I never tried to add any keywork; that is way out of my
realm. Someone else would have to help with that. Keywork
would probably only be practical on maybe the first four sections of
tubing, which would be the equivalent of an octocontrabass clarinet.
How many of you are actually interested in hearing sound clips
and seeing pictures? I do wish that I had a mouthpiece to play it.
-Gregg
-----Original Message-----
From: "Grant Green"
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 18:00:49 -0700
Subject: FWD: PVC Contrabass Clarinet
> Hi Gregg,
>
> The message below was mis-directed to me.
>
> But come to think of it, I'm curious now too :-) Looking
back at the
> original thread, it looks like the topic shifted away too
early. Did
> you every do anything else with the PVC, or record any of
the sounds?
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Grant
>
> ---------- Original Message
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> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 09:42:36 -0400
>
> Mr. Gregg B.-
>
> My name is Michael Nuttall, and I have been playing
Contrabass Clarinet
> for about 3 years now. Just yesterday I was looking up
information on
> the Contrabass, just being curious, and discovered the
Octocontrabass.
> In looking for a recording of the Octocontrabass, I came
across an
> artice you wrote on contrabass.com
> submitted this artice quite a while ago, but I would love
to be able to
> hear a recording, if you have one, of the sound that your
experiment
> creates. Also if you have built onto it anymore, be it more
piping or
> keys, I would love to know. I was looking through the
articles online
> for the Contrabass Digest, but have yet to come across
anything that
> you might have posted that could answer my question. If you
have posted
> clips already, giving a link to the website in which they
are held
> would certainly be sufficient.
>
> Thank you very much!
> -Michael Nuttall
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