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2002-03-27

 
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 16:08:39 -0900
From: Tim Johnson
Subject: [CB] Howard Johnson/CB Clarinet


There are some RealPlayer Files at

http://www.invisiblerecords.com/Resources/Gary%20Wittner.html

which sample some cuts with Howard Johnson on Contrabass Clarinet with Gary Wittner guitar. Good stuff... CB is right out front. Songs sampled are full length, I believe.

BTW: This may be a difficult link to get to. Site developers should be prohibited from embedding spaces in URLs.....

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Tim Johnson
      http://www.alaska-internet-solutions.com
      http://www.johnsons-web.com
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From: Francis Firth
Subject: [CB] CD Review
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 11:33:06 -0000


Dear All,
here is a CD review:
The CD is:
Azio Corghi: Chamber Music; Ensemble Misica20; Annarita Taliento, soprano.
Agora Musica. BMG Ricordi, 2001. CRMCD1007.
This disc has a number of works:

The works are in a modern idiom but not avant-garde or experimental and are quite accessible. Like many modern Italian composers they are always musical. I would say that Azio Corghi is a composer worth hearing about and getting to know.
The playing is excellent.
The main interest to contrabass-l is in the appearance of the contrabass flute, played by Emilio Vapi, in the first piece, . There is no solo role but the instrument may be heard clearly (and played with beautiful tone by Vapi) in the background in the middle of the piece. It is not an extensive part but interesting nonetheless.

The UK supplier of this hard-to-find CD is:
ONE FOR YOU U.K. Ltd.
7 The Crescent Littleport
CAMBRIDGE CB6 1HS
United Kingdom
Tel  0044/1353 863983
Fax 0044/1353 863563
(Mr. Bernard Pallut and Mr. Tjerk Sekeris

This information comes from Nadia Bacchiet of BMG Ricordi ( Nadia.Bacchiet@bmgricordi.it ) and she may have information about US suppliers.

I hope that you all enjoy this.
Yours with best wishes for a Happy Easter.
Francis

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From: "Patrick.Scully"
Subject: Re: [CB] [CB Digest] -- Eppelsheim Contrabass Sarrusophone
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 05:05:35 -0800


Grant,

Fascinating tidbit about the new Eppelsheim CC contrabass sarrusophone!  Are
pix and/or technical specs anywhere to be found?

Patrick

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From: LeliaLoban
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 08:40:32 EST
Subject: [CB] Villainous Didgeridoo on BUFFY


In the cliffhanger episode of BUFFY before the series began its spring break a couple of weeks ago, the villainous geeks used a honkin' big didgeridoo to summon a demon!  This demon makes Buffy think she's spent the last six years, not saving the world from demons, vampires, apocalypses (several! cheaper by the dozen!) and assorted other menaces in Sunnydale, but locked up in a mental ward in Los Angeles. In this parallel world (or maybe it's the real one...), Buffy's mother is still alive and still married to her father.  They urgently try to help Buffy's psychiatrists bring her out of this delusion in which she thinks she's a vampire slayer.

My abject apologies if this messages appears full of gobbledygook.  Still trying to sort out the vagaries of posting plain text on AOhelL 7.0, on a new and hostile computer.

Lelia Loban

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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 13:01:35 -0800
From: Grant Green
Subject: Re: [CB] Eppelsheim Contrabass Sarrusophone


>Fascinating tidbit about the new Eppelsheim CC contrabass sarrusophone!  Are
>pix and/or technical specs anywhere to be found?

Well, there's the web page at http://www.internationalfilmmusicservices.com/ifms.playerofmonth1.htm , where I first ran across mention of it.  From the picture, one can see that BE has relocated the key stacks a la tubax , placing the left and right hand stacks much closer together.  This probably improves control over the instrument while seated, but I would imagine precludes playing the instrument while standing.  Why would you want to stand playing a contra ?  I don't know, but it seems the most natural and comfortable to me when playing the Eb contra.

Grant


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Grant Green                    contrabass.com
Sarrusophones & other Contrabass Winds
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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 16:21:00 -0500
Subject: Re: [CB] Eppelsheim Contrabass Sarrusophone
From: Michael C Grogg


> BE has relocated the key stacks a la tubax, placing the left and
> right hand stacks much closer together.  This probably improves control over
 > the instrument while seated, but I would imagine precludes playing the
> instrument while standing.  Why would you want to stand playing a
> contra? 

For Marching Band, of course.


Michael Grogg
Drummer List Moderator
<<running ducking and covering from thrown contra cases>>

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