Contrabass Digest

2000-08-30

Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 13:06:54 -0700
From: Grant Green
Subject: [CB] Fwd: tubax
 

Tommie asked me to forward this to the list: first reviews of the tubax

>Today I took my first rumling tones on a contrabass sax! The big sax
>shop in town got the first two contrabass saxes in Sweden. It was
>number 7 and 8 of the Eppelsheim "Tubax", the new contra design
>discussed earlier. So I also experienced two contras playing at the
>same time... wow! The sax was designed to take a baritone
>mouthpiece, but worked well with a bass mpc too. It had very good
>response and the low notes (yes, really looow) came out very
>easilly. It also had an extra octave clef! So when you had played
>all the palm keys you just pushed the extra octave clef and started
>from B and up over the palm keys again. I reached a high B with no
>effort at all. It was a fun and well made instrument, but I got the
>feeling of playing some kind of amplified contra basson, not the
>grandfather of all saxes.
>
>I also want to share the good news that I now live with yet another
>contra instrument! I just got a contralto clarinet to carry along
>with my bass sax and baritone sax (the smaller ones not counted...).
>Now I just have to learn how to sight transpose from Bb to Eb, I
>have learned the other way on my bass sax...
>
>Happy contra greetings from Tommie.
>
>--------------------------------------------------
>Mr. Tommie Naslund
>Stockholm, Sweden.
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From: "Tom Izzo"
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 16:10:28 -0500
Subject: Re: [CB] Fwd: tubax

Tommie,

> Tommie asked me to forward this to the list: first reviews of the tubax
>
> >Today I took my first rumling tones on a contrabass sax! The big sax
> >shop in town got the first two contrabass saxes in Sweden. It was
> >number 7 and 8 of the Eppelsheim "Tubax", the new contra design
> >discussed earlier. So I also experienced two contras playing at the
> >same time... wow! The sax was designed to take a baritone
> >mouthpiece, but worked well with a bass mpc too. It had very good
> >response and the low notes (yes, really looow) came out very
> >easilly. It also had an extra octave clef!

Octave clef???? Do you mean Octave KEY?
Confused

Thanks,

Tom
 

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From: "Wisniewski, John"
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 13:11:42 -0700
Subject: RE: [CB] Fwd: tubax

So, with all the discussions about how low one can hear, if two bass saxes
play low notes together and they're out of tune, do you hear the difference
tones? (grin :) )

Regards,
John Wisniewski
also at:
   wincres@ix.netcom.com
 

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From: Opusnandy
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 17:35:10 EDT
Subject: Re: [CB] Fwd: tubax

I read an article on the Tubax on the web that said the instrument was a bass
in Bb, but this contradicts other reports I have seen.  Tommie, or anyone
else on the list, is the tubax a genuine contrabass in Eb?

Jon Carreira
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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 15:04:31 -0700
From: Grant Green
Subject: Re: [CB] Fwd: tubax
 

>I read an article on the Tubax on the web that said the instrument was a bass
>in Bb, but this contradicts other reports I have seen.  Tommie, or anyone
>else on the list, is the tubax a genuine contrabass in Eb?

Fortunately, the Sept/Oct issue of the Saxophone Journal is now out,
and contains Paul Cohen's review of the soprillo and tubax.  The
tubax is definitely in Eb.  His column also mentions a CD of Bill
Elgart playing the tubax along with other low winds ("Zollsound 2
feat/WJL2001).

Grant

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