Contrabass Digest

2002-03-13

Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 22:31:43 -0500
From: Harry Searing
Subject: RE: [CB] lipping down


TERJE LERSTAD wrote about lipping down on single reed instruments. My
bassoon teacher, Stephen Maxym, showed a few of his students back in the
70's (myself, Frank Morelli, Michael Campbell, etc.) how to do this on the
bassoon to produce a very useable low A.

Being the crazed students we were, we took it a few steps further (down) and
have actually developed a way to play these "pedal" tones on a consistent
basis.  They ain't too loud, but by fingering say a low F and moving out
onto the tip of the reed, we could produce a low F beneath the low B-flat . A
pedal low D is about the limit.

Any chance we had to "drop the octave" we did, especially in wind symphony!

Harry Searing

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From: "zhenya"
Subject: [CB] intro. bio
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:05:32 -0500


Hello Contra.
Intro:
I will be getting a Bass Tekero at the end of this year.
It will be one of only about three in the world of its design.
Of any design, very few exist. it is a bass hurdy-gurdy.
I could provide a photo if someone is interested. (off list I think.)
It's due date is December...by Christmas, and it comes from Budapest.

I also write experimental, instrumental music, and can offer that to someone who really wishes for such--for free I mean.

Otherwise, of mere human interest, we're a large family (nine children) in northern Maine, totally homeschoolers, and live in geodesic-dome house. I have been a professional (pop or jazz) trombonist for many years, in other locations or abroad.

Best wishes all,
Z/ :: jim
(home)


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Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 07:28:53 -0800
From: "Chuck Guzis"
Subject: Re: [CB] intro. bio


On 3/13/2002,  zhenya  wrote:
>I will be getting a Bass Tekero at the end of this year.
>It will be one of only about three in the world of its design.
>Of any design, very few exist. it is a bass hurdy-gurdy.
>I could provide a photo if someone is interested. (off list I think.)
>It's due date is December...by Christmas, and it comes from Budapest.

Welcome, Jim!

I found a photo of a tekero on the Hungarian folk group Teka's web site:

http://w3.datanet.hu/~teka/_palcsi2.jpg?36,73

I assume that the instrument the fellow is holding is a "normal" (tenor?)  tekero.  About how much larger is the bass version?  Is there such a creature as a contrabass tekero?

Best regards,
Chuck


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From: "zhenya"
Subject: Re: [CB] intro. bio
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 12:36:15 -0500


Hello chuck,
It is a little bigger, may be 1/3 more.
Tekeros are big to begin with.
Very few bass tekeros exist.
There is no contra-bass tekero.
May be I can make one some day. Well.
There is a perfect comparative photo on this page and mine is to be the
black one listed here. The comparison is to the right there:
http://w3.datanet.hu/~taltos/balazs.htm
She's to be an amazing instrument...
jim




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