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Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 16:27:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: Adam Kent-Isaac <lokibassoon@yahoo.com>
Subject: monster instrumentation
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.comAdam
lokibassoon@yahoo.comYou also forgot Accordions, concertinas, melodicas, melodeons,
harmoniums, hornpipes, and of course, DIGERIDOO!!-Adam
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Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 20:02:20 -0400
From: "farfl's house" <farfl@idirect.ca>
Subject: Stompable Instrument
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.com> Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 16:42:43 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Adam Kent-Isaac <lokibassoon@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Nazi Clarinet for Sale
> Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.com
>
> Nazi clarinet for Sale!!! I'm selling my old Moennig clarinet owned by
> a Nazi officer. I'm encouraging anybody who is interested in owning a
> piece of military history to bid on it on Ebay!!!
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=147346723
>
> is the Address for it! Starting Bid: $56I'd like to win it just so that I could melt it down!
Regards,
Lederman---------------------------------------------------------
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 08:48:10 -0400
Subject: Re: Stompable Instrument
From: mgrogg@juno.com
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.com>> Subject: Nazi Clarinet for Sale
>> Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.com
>>
>> Nazi clarinet for Sale!!! I'm selling my old Moennig clarinet owned
>by a Nazi officer. I'm encouraging anybody who is interested in owning
>a piece of military history to bid on it on Ebay!!!I was under the impression that use of clarinets against a civilian
population was expressly forbidden by the Geneva Convention on the
conduct of warfare. I hope that the original owner is dead, other wise
the war crimes tribunal might still be interested.:=)
MG
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---------------------------------------------------------Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 21:36:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: Adam Kent-Isaac <lokibassoon@yahoo.com>
Subject: Extra Orchestral Instruments
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.comAdam
lokibassoon@yahoo.comAlthought it is little known, a very few works include bassoon reed and
contrabassoon reeds alone without instruments, bassoon reed on bocal
without instrument, or just the tenor joint to be played. Also, the
mouthpieces of woodwinds alone, and of course, parts of clarinets
without the rest of the instrument. And a full choir of just saxophone
necks with mpc's works quite well.
And don't forget plucked piano.-Adam
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From: Opusnandy@aol.com
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 00:42:10 EDT
Subject: Re: Help with Instrumentaion
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.comI've always wanted to include in one of my scores:
Molotov Cocktails
A Cement Mixer
A Wooden Roller Coaster
Those Quasi-Fireworks That Are Shaped Like A Bottle and Shoot StreamersAny of these could be added to your Monster Instrumentation
And lets not forget about:
Glass Hamonica
Kalimba
Didgeridoos
Taragotos
Heckel-Clarina
G Mezzo-Soprano Clarinet
Slide Saxophone
Conn-O-Sax
Eb Flugelhorn
Cimbassos Galore!
Marching Mellophones (at least eight)
Flagelots
A Casio SK-1
Choir of Tibetean MonksWhen you say massive, mean it!
Jon Carreira
Bassoon, Heckelphone, Sarrusophone, and Sarcasm
---------------------------------------------------------From: Heliconman@aol.com
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 00:50:24 EDT
Subject: Re: Extra Orchestral Instruments
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.comIn a message dated 8/17/99 12:33:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
lokibassoon@yahoo.com writes:> Although it is little known, a very few works include bassoon reed and
> contrabassoon reeds alone without instruments, bassoon reed on bocal
> without instrument, or just the tenor joint to be played. Also, the
> mouthpieces of woodwinds alone, and of course, parts of clarinets
> without the rest of the instrument. And a full choir of just saxophone
> necks with mpc's works quite well.
> And don't forget plucked piano.
>
> -Adam
> __Sounds like P.D.Q. Bach compositions might be included here as unearthed by
Prof. Peter Schickele. An instrument that comes to mind here is the slide
music stand which is a folding music stand with a double reed added. Very
limited range.
---------------------------------------------------------From: Heliconman@aol.com
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 01:01:26 EDT
Subject: Re: Help with Instrumentaion
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.comIn a message dated 8/17/99 12:42:48 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
Opusnandy@aol.com writes:>
> I've always wanted to include in one of my scores:
>
> Molotov Cocktails
> A Cement Mixer
> A Wooden Roller Coaster
> Those Quasi-Fireworks That Are Shaped Like A Bottle and Shoot Streamers
>
> Any of these could be added to your Monster Instrumentation
>
> And lets not forget about:
>
> Glass Harmonica
> Kalimba
> Didgeridoos
> Taragotos
> Heckel-Clarina
> G Mezzo-Soprano Clarinet
> Slide Saxophone
> Conn-O-Sax
> Eb Flugelhorn
> Cimbassos Galore!
> Marching Mellophones (at least eight)
> Flagelots
> A Casio SK-1
> Choir of TibeteanLeave us not forget the helicons, the flugabones, the frumpets and the
flumpets.
Email me for pictures. I own the first three.
Cheers!
Heliconman
---------------------------------------------------------Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 12:14:10 +0200
From: Hans Mons <Hans@hansmons.com>
Subject: Re: Help with Instrumentaion
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.com>Does anyone know of some other woodwinds that would add a
>distinctive supplementary tone to my ensamble.What about renaissance shawms? They are loud, sound different from all
modern instruments, exist in soprano (c' or d'), alto (f or g), tenor (c)
and bass (C) or quart/quint-bass (GG of FF).
Or even louder, a set of Rauschpfeifen. These exist as sopranino (f'),
soprano (c'), alto (f) and tenor (c).Hans Mons
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From: Heliconman@aol.com
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 07:40:00 EDT
Subject: Re: Lelia L.'s Uncle Bill!
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.comIn a message dated 8/13/99 8:16:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
JimKatz@JohnAbbott.qc.ca writes:> My own first organ
> experience was a Virgil Fox concert on in a large church in Brockton, Mass.
> I remember the impressive look of the instrument, the sounds of the various
> sections of the organ coming from all parts of the church, and even some of
> the repertoire (which also leaned heavily on Bach.) I was four years old.
> Jim
>
> Jim KatzI was lucky to have seen Virgil Fox's "Heavy Organ" tour here in Boston,
complete with light show, dancing laser images and smoke machines. His
opening phrase? "I like Bach!!!" he says VERY emphatically. He encouraged
people to dance in the aisles. He was really working hard to interest the
rock concert crowd in the 70's.My first BIG experience with the pipe organ was playing a concert with my
high school band with the pipe organ accompaniment. My band director was also
a church organist and the pipe organ had such great volume that a spike had
to be put under the volume pedal to prevent blowing out any more windows in
the Melrose, MA, Memorial Hall. His featured solo was the Toccata from
Boellmann's Suite Gothique which climaxes with all the stops pulled out.
Being a sousaphone player, I sat in the back row on stage with my back to the
pipes and the great volume made me just a bit nervous. Real "Heavy Organ"
stuff! Later that year, I got to climb up around the pipes while working as a
stagehand with the community theatre group. I'm still brainstorming how I'm
going to arrange a concert with that great instrument again. Lately, I've
been going to organ concerts in the Methuen Memorial Hall, performed on the
Wallker organ built in the 1860s for the Boston Music Hall, the early home of
of the Boston Symphony and the Handel & Haydn Society and the hall where
Patrick Gilmore rehearsed his 10,000 voice chorus for the 1869 National Peace
Jubilee. I believe it was the first concert pipe organ in the U.S. Anyhow, a
couple of interesting pieces played this summer were the Perry Mason theme
and an "improvisation on submitted themes". One theme was an old hymn that
sounded vaguely familiar and the other was the theme from the Simpsons. The
organist, Bruce Neswick stated first the hymn, then the Simpsons which got a
chuckle from the audience and a moment of apparent disbelief from the
organist. His improvisation was mostly on the hymn, but he managed to pervert
the chords to a point where he could work "Homer's Hymn" in a couple of
times. Pretty impressive improv! I hope the recording of these concerts
become available soon!
All which reminds me....I should try to find the program from E. Power Biggs'
memorial service at Harvard and put it in a special place (besides in his
album jacket). Unfortunately I never got to hear him play, except on records.
For a while, I was waking up to a tape player on a timer of him playing a
piece that started out very quietly and built to a great crescendo complete
with full brass section and
timpanis. I used to call it the "Morning Wedge". It starts out as part of my
dream, but as it got louder at some point I'd actually wake up. Worked like a
charm.
Cheers!
Heliconman
---------------------------------------------------------Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 09:43:01 -0400
From: FranÚois Villon <feodor@informaxinc.com>
Subject: Re: Extra Orchestral Instruments
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.comWhat about clarinets and saxes without mouthpiece played in zinc-like
fashion...Adam Kent-Isaac wrote:
>
> Althought it is little known, a very few works include bassoon reed and
> contrabassoon reeds alone without instruments, bassoon reed on bocal
> without instrument, or just the tenor joint to be played. Also, the
> mouthpieces of woodwinds alone, and of course, parts of clarinets
> without the rest of the instrument. And a full choir of just saxophone
> necks with mpc's works quite well.
> And don't forget plucked piano.
>
> -Adam
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