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Here's a Baby Cello  Another Barrett Crease-up manifests itself!... Best, Alistair |
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« Reply #31 on: 09:30:35, 22-09-2007 » |
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Here's a Baby Cello Played by Anthony Payne? ( Bloody Composers.)  |
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« Reply #32 on: 10:07:49, 24-09-2007 » |
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As to an ideal continuo instrument, nothing quite beats the contrabass saxophone, methinks (or, as an alternative, the tubax, which is somewhat more practical in that it is easier to carry around, sports a conventional baritone sax mouthpiece and is capable of rather more florid passagework when called upon to provide it).
Ollie will now probably demand that I face the wall while he organises the firing squad... Au contraire. The Tubax is a wonderful instrument. Much more flexible than saxophones usually are and capable of a whispering pianissimo right down into the depths. If only I had a picture of the stand at the Frankfurt Musikmesse earlier this year which Guntram Wolf and Benedikt Eppelsheim shared. Wolf with a swag of early instruments (clarinets, oboes, bassoons and chalumeaus including the basson di chalumeau itself which I think he was one of the first to reconstruct - it is a continuo instrument by the way), Eppelsheim with mostly tubaxes and the rather surreal soprillo (an octave above the soprano sax) as well as his contrabass clarinet. And of course their joint effort the contraforte, a very successful rethinking of the contrabassoon. Do peruse their wares if you haven't already: http://www.guntramwolf.de/http://www.eppelsheim.com/ |
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« Reply #33 on: 10:47:45, 24-09-2007 » |
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the rather surreal soprillo (an octave above the soprano sax) Attention: Due to its extreme range and the required very firm embouchure only professional players can play the Soprillo. It may take several months of practise to reach the highest notes.  |
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« Reply #34 on: 11:39:58, 24-09-2007 » |
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Surely that should be a "Busted Cranium" Zone to stay on topic...
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« Reply #35 on: 11:17:19, 12-01-2008 » |
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Here's a Baby Cello If you view it as an oversize viola, it's a Big Calamity Tommo |
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« Reply #36 on: 12:57:23, 12-01-2008 » |
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Do peruse their wares if you haven't already
Dear Santa Can I please have a tiger-striped faggotino for Christmas 2008?  (I somehow fear Herr Wolf might get a bit of sales resistance to a child-oriented instrument named like that in the USA market....) |
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« Reply #37 on: 13:36:32, 12-01-2008 » |
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Can I please have a tiger-striped faggotino for Christmas 2008?
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« Reply #38 on: 13:47:41, 12-01-2008 » |
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Not, ehem, if you complete the logic-circle on calendar dates, and assume New Year's Day on January 14th (as many Believers still do in Russia. My ex- and her family were very firm on this matter, in fact). In fact we have the last party of the holiday season tomorrow evening, to see-in the "Old(-style) New Year" And the whole country gets Monday off in lieu of the Sunday-falling holiday The lengths to which I'll go to get a stripey mini-bassoon, eh? |
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« Reply #39 on: 14:17:07, 12-01-2008 » |
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Yes, of course on this thread you'd go by the Believer's Calendar...
And shouldn't Herr Wolf's striped Tiger Klarinette be called a Bumblebee Clarinet instead?
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« Reply #40 on: 14:27:34, 12-01-2008 » |
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Yes, of course on this thread you'd go by the Believer's Calendar...
"I saw her face, and..." striped Tiger Klarinette be called a Bumblebee Clarinet instead?
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« Reply #41 on: 14:32:39, 12-01-2008 » |
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Reiner wins the prize for the first person ever to mention the Beach Boys and Rimsky-Korsakov in the same post!!!
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« Reply #42 on: 14:47:31, 12-01-2008 » |
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Wasn't that by the Monkees?
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« Reply #43 on: 15:58:53, 12-01-2008 » |
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Yes it was! Reiner still gets a prize, though.  |
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« Reply #44 on: 17:50:32, 12-01-2008 » |
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Wasn't that by the Monkees?
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