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« Reply #30 on: 06:15:57, 14-10-2008 »
My first sojurn into playing a musicial instrument was at the tender age of 9! I started on percussion, then my first brass instrument which was the trumpet. This was about 11 years old then followed roughly a year later on the piano.

My main instrument had always been the trumpet, up to the age of 14, when i joined my first brass band. Ofcourse, I was given a cornet, typically(!) on 'back row' to start off with, 3rd cornet, then 2nd and finally Repiano. This particular psoition in  the brass band is really an enforcer for the front row cornets(the ones who play the florid bits!). My journey did'nt stop there! I went on to euphonium for a while before graduating on the EEb Bass, where I am to this day. However for a shortwhile I was on the BBb Bass! But now I am on the EEb Bass which is more suitable for me really.
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« Reply #31 on: 12:41:33, 14-10-2008 »
Did you play as a member of a school band, like my kid bro? or were you a lone star?

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« Reply #32 on: 12:48:40, 14-10-2008 »
Unfortunately round my area there were no bands as such, schools that is, just orchestras!! Yuk! But still had a great time. I expect these days, there are more chances.
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« Reply #33 on: 17:18:46, 14-10-2008 »
Quote from: time_is_now on 00:44:34, 16-09-2008
I've just found out from the Now spinning thread that stuart is an ex-flautist, martle an ex-oboist and harmonyharmony an ex-clarinettist (although I think I knew this already).

What do other members play, currently or in the past?

It's occurred to me that I haven't properly contributed to this thread.
As t_i_n says, I am an ex-clarinettist (though I do plan on reviving it a little) but I'm also an ex-pianist (see the piano thread for details of my attempts to remember how to play again), and I've been singing since I was 8 in various choirs. I'm still a tenor, but my high notes are Not What They Were. Having a few lessons fairly soon to try and work out whether its worth spending more time on it, or whether I should just stick with what little technique I have.
I also play most of the basic gamelan instruments, and have been known to perform on my laptop.

Quote from: brassbandmaestro on 06:15:57, 14-10-2008
before graduating on the EEb Bass, where I am to this day. However for a shortwhile I was on the BBb Bass! But now I am on the EEb Bass which is more suitable for me really.

I played the Eb contra-alto clarinet for a while and found that the strain on my lungs and diaphragm was quite considerable and took a lot of getting used to. Is this the same for the EEb Bass? I'm wondering how your asthma interacts with this. I had (mild chronic allergic) asthma when I was younger, and learning the clarinet and singing a lot actually helped to improve things.
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« Reply #34 on: 17:33:17, 14-10-2008 »
EEb Bass is a  tuba, hh. Asthma is not a hinderance as far as brass playing goes. It helps to expand the lungs.

Thefre is also the BBb Bass tuba which is also in the bb. The one in the orchestra, I expect you know ofcourse, is usally the F tuba.
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« Reply #35 on: 22:03:28, 14-10-2008 »
Gosh. I haven't replied to this one.

I'm a clarinettist mostly. Since I play in a biggish new music ensemble (and from time to time some smaller ones) I sort of have to come to grips with most of the sizes.

Eb: Noblet, Buffet RC Prestige
C: Noblet
Bb: Buffet Festival, Buffet R13 and a Clemens Wurlitzer full-Boehm from ebay
A: Buffet Festival, Buffet R13
basset horn: Buffet Prestige (the new model but not the very newest)
bass clarinet: Buffet Prestige (bought it in 1993, just before they remodelled it and for my taste took too much of the oomph out of the sound)
contrabass clarinet: Leblanc 'paperclip', the kind that packs down into a box the size of an alto sax case

I also have a Turkish metal simple-system G and a simple-system Bb by Henri Frenier (another ebay one). I don't have a high Ab, an alto, a D or a contra-alto.

And some saxophones...
Yanagisawa 901 alto
Selmer Série II alto
Conn tenor from about 1919

And there are some other instruments I have lying around which for the moment are just for fun.

Chalumeaus for instance.
a set by Peter van der Poel (soprano, alto, tenor, bass)
a soprano by Guntram Wolf
a basson di chalumeau by Andreas Schöni
All those are at a'=415. I also have a Moeck alto at 440. Internet but not ebay.

And some historical clarinets (at 430 except for the exceptions)...
D 2-key after Denner at 415 (Jochen Seggelke)
Bb 5-key after Lotz (Peter van der Poel)
C 7-key after Bühner & Keller (Jochen Seggelke)
Bb 9-key at 452 (Henri Pourcelle - another ebay one)
Bb 12-key with middle joints for 5-key after Grenser (Joel Robinson) - I posted some pics on the Look What I Bought thread not so long ago
(I have an A 7-key by Daniel Bangham currently in my possession but it really belongs to one of my former teachers in Australia)
Eb 13-key at 452 (Lefèvre) - from the early-mid 19th century, found it in a shop in Avignon still with the original mouthpiece.

And some recorders (top three grenadilla, bottom two maple, I won't mention the several plastic ones although the Yamaha tenor, the Aulos treble and the Zen-On Brennan treble are actually OK)...
Kung garklein
Moeck sopranino
Mollenhauer treble
Zen-On treble
Zen-On bass

And I have a French bassoon which gets the odd tootle but is certainly never going to see the stage unless I do something like Atem. (Which come to think of it is not so unlikely.) And a Moeck straight cornetto which I bought just in case my lips turned out to be suited for it but they're not.

I also used to sing quite a bit when I lived in Australia (I can sight-read quite well, have a workable ensemble tenor voice and can do a fair few languages realistically enough that people who don't actually know what they sound like can usually be convinced), but since I've been in Europe I don't have much time for that.

And used to do a fair bit of conducting, mainly of new ensemble music, but again there's not much time for that nowadays.

I think that possibly comes under the heading of Too Much Information. Oh well, I've typed it now.
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« Reply #36 on: 09:44:52, 15-10-2008 »
Although i've played the piano since the age of 7, i also used to play the violin (aged 8 - 11) and the oboe (age 11 - 17) but i gave both up and concentrated on the piano!
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