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Contrabass-list Sun, 8 Feb 1998 Volume 1 : Number 112
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Date: Sat, 7 Feb 1998 18:44:10 EST
From:
BariSaxJzz@aol.com
Subject: Re: contrabass-list V1
#111
Hey Mr. Firth,
Could you scan that picture of the contrabass oboe and sarrusophone and send it to me? Thanks!
Thanks,
Nick
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 1998 08:14:42 -0800 (PST)
From:
Philip Neuman <neuman@up.edu>
Subject: Re:
contrabass-list V1 #91
Grant,
Could you describe how the antique keyboard panpipe at Orsi works? This is a new one on me.
Philip Neuman
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 1998 08:11:30 -0800 (PST)
From:
Philip Neuman <neuman@up.edu>
Subject: Re:
contrabass-list V1 #93
Regarding a posting some time ago, I have played a 4 valve Miraphone Eb alto horn. It was oval with 4 rotary valves and wrapped so a horn player could finger with his or her left hand. It played great.
I also own a 4 valve Getzen Fluegelhorn, and it plays surprisingly well. Great low range including the pedal notes.
Philip Neuman
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 13:52:17 -0800
From: Grant
Green <gdgreen@contrabass.com>
Subject: Re:
contrabass-list V1 #91
At 08:14 AM 2/7/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Grant,
>Could you describe how the antique keyboard panpipe at Orsi works? This
>is a new one on me.>Philip Neuman
It looked like a row of metal pipes, ranging in size over several inches (the longest about the length of a soprano recorder), with a row of keys perpindicular to the pipes. There was a rubber tube that connected a small mouthpiece to the end of the row of tubes. I didn't try it out (I doubt the rubber tube was still air-tight), but my guess is that one blows through the rubber tube, and presses a key to divert air through the corresponding tube. I suspect that the instrument is monophonic, that the highest tube open grabs all the air, and not enough is left to sound the next open tube, but I could be wrong. Perhaps with sufficient wind, one could sound chords on the instrument.
Grant
End of contrabass-list V1 #112