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EDITOR'S NOTE: Let's welcome another new subscriber, Joe Terwilliger < jdt3@cunix.cc.columbia.edu >.
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 18:45:19 -0500 (EST)
From:
Joe Terwilliger
<joe@linkage.cpmc.columbia.edu>
Subject: Re:
SUBSCRIBE CONTRABASS-L
On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Grant Green wrote:
> New subscribers are especially invited to introduce themselves
> and say a few words about their interests and instruments. Not compulsory,
> but everyone likes to have an idea of who're their speaking with.
Okay - I am Joseph Terwilliger, primarily I am a tuba player but lately I have been playing BB-flat contrabass trombone a lot. I finally bought one a year or so ago, and I love it - aside from liking the axe in and of itself, nothing I have ever done has helped my tuba chops so much - because when you pick up a tuba after playing that monster, it is so easy to play it is like a dream. Anyway, I saw this list and thought it might be an interesting place to meet up with other contrabass instrument players. There are certainly not many of us out there playing contrabass trombone, so I want to hear more. Oh yeah, in college my minor was bari sax, because of my fascination with the low, but anyway, I haven't touched one of those in years.
Best,
Joseph D. Terwilliger, Ph.D.
Funny you should mention that (the contrabass trombone). I've just been listening to The Pioneer Brass's "Acres of Clams", which includes a few pieces with contrabass trombone. (BTW, despite the title, there's not a clam to be found in the music.) Philip Neumann plays it on the CD, and I've been meaning to ask about it. Now I can ask you both...
Do your CBTBs have double slides? I've read somewhere that the slide on the contrabass is doubled, so that the positions end up the same distance as on the tenor trombone. Or is it mainly an extra trigger and a wider bore? Where does one find a new CBTB these days, or does one? What about it makes it hard to play? I played trombone a bit in high school and college, and always found it easier than tuba (not that I had many opportunities to play tuba...).
BTW, Philip, did you know that the publisher misspelled "Pioneer Brass" on the CD? Its fine on the front, but the spine label says "Poioneer Brass".
Do you know of any other CBTB recordings? I've run across a piece by Toshiko Akiyoshi called "I ain't gonna ask no more", which features a contrabass trombone in a big band setting. Other than that, there are a few "original instruments" recordings of Berlioz works that call for contrabass trombones (which must have predated tubas).
Grant
Another CD:
Found this one at CDNow (on the web): "Bouncin' In Rhythm" by Adrian Rollini. If you like bass sax, this has to be one of the "must haves".
Tracks:
The personnel includes (and these are just the names I recognize):
The "hot fountain pen" was a novelty clarinet, small enough to slip into a suit pocket, small enough to make an Eb clarinet look oversized. But, what is a goofus?
Grant
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