I am looking into getting this in stock. The bad news is that it will be $100+. Gary +--------------------------------------------------------------------- ......
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Aage Nielsen
aagenielsen
Mar 28, 2011 4:37 pm
Yes indeed, Jason. Congratulations! I am very happy for you. Aage -----Original Message----- From: Walter Grabner Sent: Mar 28, 2011 9:11 AM To:...
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Trevor
barrtrevor
Mar 29, 2011 8:39 pm
Hello All, I'm in need of the bass clarinet and contra clarinet parts to "Fantasy Variations on a Theme by Nicolo Paganini" by James Barnes. If anyone has...
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Jason Alder
nerokerr
Mar 31, 2011 5:51 pm
Thanks Walter and Aage. The text, as I sent it back to Harry after ... Today, bass clarinettist Jason Alder performs the piece virtually by himself. All he...
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Lori Archer Sutherland
archerlm
Apr 17, 2011 5:35 pm
Hi all! My two contras have mouthpieces that take the wider contra reeds. I know Vandorens are the right size, but they're so expensive and don't come in half...
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Amy
chambrmusc
Apr 17, 2011 9:21 pm
I'd love to play in a Clarinet choir. You're not in the Memphis area, are you? Sent from Amy's iPhone...
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womrep
Apr 17, 2011 10:43 pm
I have a Legere and if someone needs to borrow it at the repair shop where I work, I just hand them the reed and a bottle of Sterisol - I view sharing a...
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Kenneth
kkshaw43
Apr 19, 2011 3:56 pm
... Lori - As you can see from the serial number chart, Leblanc's production rate for the 340 started at just under 200 per year and trailed off to just 7 in...
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Gary Van Cott
garyvancott
Apr 20, 2011 5:24 pm
A number of people have asked me about this book. At this point, I am probably not going to carry it. It is an expensive book ($100+) and the publisher said...
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Lori Archer Sutherland
archerlm
Apr 24, 2011 9:15 pm
Thanks for the replies! Sorry it's taken me a while to get back to the group. Amy, I'm in the Chicago area - unfortunately a bit far from Memphis... I...
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Kenneth
kkshaw43
Apr 25, 2011 3:47 pm
Lori - I use bass sax reeds, which fit perfectly. Here are are some mouthpieces made by low clarinet players that are less expensive than Grabner: ...
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Bobby M
matterofstyle
Apr 26, 2011 1:44 am
Hey amy If you are free the Mississippi Community Symphonic band will be playing a joint concert in Memphis on May 7 with the River City Concert band. I will...
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Lori Archer Sutherland
archerlm
Apr 27, 2011 10:42 pm
Thanks for the additional info! I'll look into the other mps - I've loved my Grabner bass mpc so that's why I was leaning toward his. :) I did finally get to...
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Kenneth
kkshaw43
Apr 28, 2011 7:36 pm
Lori - Commercial contra mouthpieces such as Selmer are enormously variable. Ralph Morgan, who worked for Selmer, said that except for Bb soprano mouthpieces,...
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ml_drapkin
May 1, 2011 4:57 pm
Folks: I am looking for "play testers" to proofread and perform in concert bass clarinet parts that will be included in my upcoming book: "Symphonic Repertoire...
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RobertE
relkjer@att.net
May 10, 2011 7:30 pm
Hi- Elkjer Music has new clarinet quartet sheet music: A Night in Tunisia <http://robertelkjer.net/Clarinet4tets/ANightInTunisia4CL.mp3> (fun, exotic...
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williampatry
May 13, 2011 2:12 am
Hello fellow bass clarinetists: A new project to increase the bass clarinet literature has been launched, the Bass Clarinet Commission Collective. The idea is...
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donharrington1@...
dth7018
May 30, 2011 2:39 pm
Cigarettes are only for losers!. http://www.clubmedian.hu/friends.links.php?jfgoogleId=45a6...
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suchan38
Jun 8, 2011 3:39 pm
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Nick
nickphil19
Jun 11, 2011 7:23 pm
Watching the trooping of the colour today in the UK, there was not a sign of a bass clarinet in the bands (although I might have missed them). So a few...
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Jaap
jpbn@ymail.com
Jun 12, 2011 8:43 am
Malvern wind chamber music course Malvern College, 6-13 august 2011 worcestershire UK ...
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Jaap
jpbn@ymail.com
Jun 12, 2011 8:48 am
2-6 april 2012 http://www.sarahkwatts.co.uk/Site_2/Raasay_bass_clarinet_course.html Rasaay Scotland The 2012 Raasay Bass Clarinet Course course will be held in...
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Roger Hewitt
rogerclarinet
Jun 12, 2011 9:37 am
They certainly do use bass clarinets, but not on the march. If you look at all the Sousa, Alford, et al marches they never have bass clarinet parts. However...
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norman.smale
Jun 12, 2011 6:58 pm
Ah Nostolgia - I watched it with interest as it was the 50th anniversary of taking part in my last trooping!! Back then I hardly ever saw a bass clarinet, in...
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kkshaw43
Jun 15, 2011 4:39 pm
When I was in the West Point Band, in which everyone played 3 or 4 parades a week, they never marched alto or bass clarinets or double reeds. The instruments...
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doctroid
Jun 15, 2011 4:56 pm
On the other end of the instrument's history, somewhere I read that there are a couple of prints dating from early 19th century USA showing military bands in...
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Kenneth
kkshaw43
Jun 15, 2011 5:09 pm
If these have a serpent's or dragon's head for a bell, they're almost certainly Russian Bassoons, which are keyed serpents played with a brass mouthpiece....
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doctroid
Jun 15, 2011 5:14 pm
... As I recall they had a flared bell, similar to the Catlin instruments....
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Don Harrington
dth7018
Jun 15, 2011 5:22 pm
I marched bass clarinet in junior high, but that was only one parade a year and it was in the spring in the SFO Bay Area, so the weather wasn't too nasty. I...
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Keith Bowen
keith.bowen@...
Jun 15, 2011 5:50 pm
Indeed, the primary use of the newly-invented bass clarinet, in bassoon form, in the early nineteenth century was in military bands. I have seen a European...
