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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:29:04 -0700
From: Grant Green
Subject: Re: [CB] Language!>Grant, we need to make a rule about writing in foreign languages. Always
>provide the English translation! Hey, if English is the language of aviation,
>why can't it be the language of contra folk?
>
>StuartThere is an old joke, with entirely too much truth to it:
Q: If someone who speaks two languages is called "bilingual", and
someone who speaks several languages is called "multi-lingual", what
do you call someone who speaks only one language?A: An American.
I have to include myself there - I know enough Italian to catch the
correct train in Rome, enough German to order in a restaurant with
too much difficulty, and enough French to thoroughly embarrass myself
in Paris...If people want to write in Spanish, or French, or Latin, or
Atlantean, they're perfectly welcome to do so - keeping in mind, of
course, how many or few readers will understand them (especially
after the internet mangles all the diacritical marks)... ;-)>PS- This letter should be taken lighthearted.
It is ;-)
GDG
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---------------------------------------------------------Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:31:24 -0700
From: Grant Green
Subject: [CB] Contragig bagsThe local RB distributor asked if I'd post this:
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It may be of interest to list members that Reunion Blues has agreed to make
me a small run of the long out of production contrabassoon gig bag. These
bags were designed to fit Mollenhauer Opera and Moosman type
instruments, and come in leather or cordura.RB is also gearing up to do another small run of the contrabass trombone
bags. These fit all F contrabass trombones and some F cimbassos,
such as the Rudy Meinl.If you are interested in one of these bags, or another from Reunion Blues,
please email me for pricing and delivery information.Steve Ferguson
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Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 01:51:26 +0200
From: "Klaus Bjerre"
Subject: Re: [CB] Language!
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>From: Grant Green
> I have to include myself there - I know
> enough German to order in a restaurant
Any faith in our list manager must be lost after he has admitted to try to
order food in German at a restaurant.A recent Bundeskansler had the bad taste to serve Saumagen to his foreign
guests.Germany might be considered the provider of a few composers, a few good
horns (which called themselves "French" in certain parts of the world), some
good bassoons, and maybe a car or two. But food? (:-(Lived there for 11 years.
Klaus
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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 18:31:28 -0700
From: Grant Green
Subject: [CB] Contrabassophone
There is an excellent article about the contrabassophone in the
current Galpin Society Journal (April 2000), "A Contrabassophone by
Alfred Morton" by Tom Dibley (GSJ 4/00, p. 60-77). The article
discusses some of the history of the instrument (believed invented
around 1850 by Hasseneier), and includes photographs of three
examples of the instrument (only a few were ever made). The
instrument has a wooden body, a wide conical bore, Boehm-like
fingering system, and is played with a double reed (larger than a
contrabassoon reed). Its lowest note is contrabass C (aka 16' C, aka
C1).Now, if I can just figure out who to request copyright clearance for
the pictures....
Grant
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---------------------------------------------------------Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 18:35:58 -0700
From: Grant Green
Subject: Re: [CB] Language!
> > I have to include myself there - I know
> > enough German to order in a restaurant
>
>Any faith in our list manager must be lost after he has admitted to
>try to order food in German at a restaurant.What can I say - you get hungry after a few days ;-) Besides, how
could I return from Germany and say I ate only at Italian and Spanish
restaurants?Grant
BTW, let's not forget heckelphones, and wasn't the tuba a German invention? :-)
GDG
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---------------------------------------------------------Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 18:57:55 -0700
From: "Chuck Guzis"
Subject: Re: [CB] Language!On 7/10/00, Grant Green wrote:
>BTW, let's not forget heckelphones, and wasn't the tuba a German invention? :-)Czech, or rather Bohemian, (V.I. Cerveny), I believe. Czech food may be death on the arteries (sour cream and butter), but it IS good.
And let's remember that the French got their much-vaunted cuisine from an Italian source.
Cheers,
Chuck "I eat at Indian restaurants in London" Guzis
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From: "Tom Izzo"
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 23:00:11 -0500
Subject: Re: [CB] Language!> >
Grant inquired:
> >
wasn't the tuba a German invention? :-)
That's debateable.
The word "Tuba" was around in Roman times, but strangely enough, it more closely resembled what we would call a straight "Natural" Trumpet. That makes it interesting considering Tubas are conical (Horn Family), rather than Cyclindrical (Trumpet family).
Tom
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From: "Price, David"
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 09:14:29 +0100
Subject: RE: [CB] Recordings
Yes, there is a web-site @ http://www.musicweb.force9.co.uk/music/hoffnung/
Dave.
> -----Original Message-----
> The Hoffnung recordings are available as a 2 CD set on the British EMI label (there's also a revival of the festival available on Decca). I got mine from:
>
> EuropaDisc fax from USA: 011 44 178 731 1469
> 89-91 North Street
> Sudbury, Suffolk
> England CO10 6RF
>
> I don't know of a web site for them, however. >>
>
> Here's the official website where the profits from the CDs go directly to
> Gerard Hoffnung's widow. Keep it in the family!
> <http://www.musicweb.f9.co.uk/music/hoffnung/index.htm>
> Fun Stuff! Enjoy!
> Heliconman
> ----------------------
---------------------------------------------------------Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 10:09:13 -0800
From: Andrew Stiller
Subject: Re: [CB] Language!At 11:00 PM -0500 7/10/00, Tom Izzo wrote:
>The word "Tuba" was around in Roman times, but strangely enough, it more
>closely resembled what we
>would call a straight "Natural" Trumpet.Tuba is merely the Latin word for trumpet. It was borrowed for the
name of the modern tuba, but the two instruments have nothing to do
w. each other beyond being brass winds.>That makes it interesting
>considering Tubas are conical (Horn Family), rather than Cyclindrical (Trumpet family).All brass instruments are conical. If they weren't they'd function
as stopped pipes acoustically, and sound an octave lower than they do.--
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Presshttp://www.netcom.com/~kallisti
Ut Sol inter planetas, Ita MUSICA inter Artes liberales in medio radiat.
--Heinrich Schuetz, 1640
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