[Please pardon this cross posting] Dear Fellow Members, I am currently making a Sibelius file of the Sonata Solennis a 20. This work was written by Hen....
Steven, ... If the music is from mid 16th century to mid 17th century it *could* have been a so called basset shawm, what is a tenor shawm with a downward ...
Dear Hans, ... It is from around the middle of the 17th century - maybe from 1650 to 1690? ... Perhaps you're right! I tend to think that it might be for a...
Thanks for this reply, Dave. ... My midi player won't open this file for some reason. ... This is correct. I've picked up on a few other errors in the score. ...
Hi all, I know this is the DULCIAN list, but does anyone know good websites for shawms? This would, of course, include makers, info sites, iconographical...
Hi Doug, Welcome to the dulcian list. ... Unfortunately I never found one. And, I have no plans to start one either, each day only has 24 hours ;-( ... You...
Hi Doug, It's possible that Herb Myers at Stanford would have a list of iconographical sources--he's written lots of scholarly papers and articles about...
Peggy Murray
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Aug 25, 2002 4:39 am
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HI all, I've noticed that the Praetorius(1619) and Mersenne(1636) plates of shawms show tenors with 2 keys in the front, and two in the back, and my assumption...
Doug The tenors with the extra keys do go down to G--they're called extended tenors. According to Herb Myers, they were probably more common than the tenors...
Peggy Murray
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Aug 28, 2002 5:41 am
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... Who says they don't? I have a tenor with range to low G (see http://www.contrabass.com/pages/shawms.html for a picture of it next to an alto and soprano)....
Hi Doug, ... Correct, the extended tenors go down to G. And no, the small tenor is not a modern creation. The original of the small tenor that is copied by ...
There are several surviving one-keyed tenor shawms to C (nicolo is one of the contemporary designations for that pitch), including a fine one in Prague which...
... Please do and let us know. I have never seen a fontanel with this kind of pattern. The makers I know of who made and sold extended shawms in the past are...
Hi, I live in Poland and I'd like to buy a shawm. I heard that there are some early instrument makers in Prague. If know any of them, let me know, please. ...
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Hi everyone- I don't currently have a dulcian or baroque bassoon, but I played dulcian many years ago at university, and Heckel bassoon even longer ago than...
... If you buy a dulcian try to get one at Chor-ton a' = 466 Hz - this is the correct pitch for most 17th century (and 16th century) music which would include...
... Although it is correct that the originals all are high pitch instruments with most of them probably around 460 and some even above 480, for a first dulcian...
This weekend I visited the London instrument fair to get my new bass shawm. Besides this beautiful new instrument, my biggest surprise was that I found there...
By way of illustration, I also play Baroque flute. Since I like French music, at one point I got a Rod Cameron 3-joint flute at a=392 or so. It's a fantastic...
Dear all, I just posted an ad for a used bass shawm for the incredible low price of 3400 Euro, see www.dulcians.org/classified.htm. If you like to know how ...
Hello, Hans. Would it be OK to post your email below on the Waits Website Notes & Queries page? I am sure it would be of great interest to Waits. Best wishes, ...
Gutteridge
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Nov 9, 2002 9:53 am
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Hi all, I just bought a new CD of Piffaro "Music of the Odhecaton" (on the Dorian label). As usual, Piffaro plays on various Renaissance wind instruments...
La Compañia: Vivien Hamilton, soprano Christine Baker, percussion Glenn Bardwell, sackbut Bob Collins, sackbut Mitchell Cross, shawm and dulcian Rosemary...
Hi all, I wanted to ask for some advice on dulcian fingering. I have a tenor dulcian (made by Eric Moulder) and I have a problem with eb. Usually, I take 1 2...
