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Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 23:31:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: Adam Kent-Isaac <lokibassoon@yahoo.com>
Subject: The Stir Of Echoes
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.comAnybody here see 'Stir of Echoes" with kevin bacon?
This movie (apart from just being a scary as hell movie) boasts an
impressive orchestrated soundtrack.The contrabass clarinet is used many, many times to highlight some of
the most frightening parts.Horror movies make frequent use of the contrabass clarinet and
contrabassoon. I wonder who they get to play these contrabass parts?Anyway, the question is: has anybody here gigged for a film studio and
appeared on a movie sountrack? If you have, I'd like you to tell me so
I could see that movie. Don't be ashamed if it's a movie of…well…
"questionable" taste!I'd love to work for a film studio playing contra instruments. Have any
of you done this? Do you know how you could get a job here and there
doing this?
-Adam
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---------------------------------------------------------From: "Aaron Rabushka" <arabushk@cowtown.net>
Subject: Re: The Stir Of Echoes
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 10:34:03 -0500
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.comAn interesting note on the film score idea--when we recorded my op. 15
madrigal in Zlin the manager of the Martinu orchestra brought in one of two
bass flautists in Czechoslovakia--Vaclav Sykora, who played for a film
studio in Prague.Aaron J. Rabushka
arabushk@cowtown.net
http://www.cowtown.net/users/arabushk/
-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Kent-Isaac <lokibassoon@yahoo.com>
To: contrabass@contrabass.com <contrabass@contrabass.com>
Date: Sunday, September 19, 1999 1:34 AM
Subject: The Stir Of Echoes>Anybody here see 'Stir of Echoes" with kevin bacon?
>
> This movie (apart from just being a scary as hell movie) boasts an
>impressive orchestrated soundtrack.
>
> The contrabass clarinet is used many, many times to highlight some of
>the most frightening parts.
>
> Horror movies make frequent use of the contrabass clarinet and
>contrabassoon. I wonder who they get to play these contrabass parts?
>
> Anyway, the question is: has anybody here gigged for a film studio and
>appeared on a movie sountrack? If you have, I'd like you to tell me so
>I could see that movie. Don't be ashamed if it's a movie of…well…
>"questionable" taste!
>
>I'd love to work for a film studio playing contra instruments. Have any
>of you done this? Do you know how you could get a job here and there
>doing this?
>
>
>-Adam
>Bassoon, low clarinets, saxes and bass.---------------------------------------------------------
From: CoolStu67@aol.com
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 12:46:00 EDT
Subject: Re: The Stir Of Echoes
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.com<<
Horror movies make frequent use of the contrabass clarinet and
contrabassoon. I wonder who they get to play these contrabass parts?
>>Most of the time, the music director hires a professional orchestra to play
their scores. Then, the bass clarinetist probably plays the contra, and the
resident contrabassoonist or second bassoonist would play the contrabassoon.
I'm pretty sure they wouldn't just hire people off the street; that would
take too long and the quality wouldn't be as uniform as hiring a reputable
orchestra. The London Symphony seems to be very popular among different
films. They have done all the Jurassic Parks, the Indiana Jones', Jaws,
Schindler's List, and basically every Speilburg/Williams production (also
Michael Kamen's work, such as Mr. Holland's Opus). My advice: join a
well-known orchestra, like the Atlanta Symphony or New York Philharmonic, and
you might get a job.Stuart
---------------------------------------------------------From: "Gregg Bailey" <greggbailey@hotmail.com>
Subject: Pommer, Bombarde, Schalmei??
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 12:10:22 CDT
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.comDear knowledgeable list people,
What is a pommer? On the organ, a pommer is a stopped flue rank, like a
panflute. I asked a German foreign exchange student what Pommer translates
to in English, and he told me something like this: it's a device between 2
train cars that keeps them from colliding. Is that correct??
How does a bombarde differ from a sarrusophone? The organ's bombarde is a
powerful conical reed rank. Somewhere I learned that the actual bombarde
instrument is basically a metal bassoon.
What is a schalmei? What I don't understand is that, apparently, Schalmei
is derived from Chalumeau--Chalumeau, Shalemoy, Schalmei. So a chalumeau is
a cylindrical reed instrument, the ancestor to the clarinet. Yet on the
organ, the schalmei stop is like a cross between a trumpet and an oboe;
whatever it is, the pipes are conical. What's the deal???
Thanks in advance for any information.
-Gregg Bailey______________________________________________________
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---------------------------------------------------------Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 11:16:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: Adam Kent-Isaac <lokibassoon@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Pommer, Bombarde, Schalmei??
Reply-To: contrabass@contrabass.comDear Gregg:
A pommer is defined as any member of the shawm family lower in pitch
than the tenor. The bass, contra and lower shawms are all "pommers."
A chalumeaux is an ancestor of the clarinet. Hwever, the term
"chalumeaux" also means the clarinet's lower register.
The Schalmei is totally different and not closely related to the
chalumeaux. It is a Baroque German double reed instrument, and it's
also called the Deutch Schalmei.
That is why the organ stop sounds like an oboe or a trumpet.
A bombarde is what the bassoon used to be before some person decided
that it'd be less cumbersome folded up, which he did, and that became
the modern bassoon.
THIS IS NOT the same as Bombardon, which is defined as the tuba
between bass and contrabass sizes.-Adam
Low Clarinets, Bassoon, Saxes and bass
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