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Not a Sarrusophone, but still neat

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Re: [Sarrusophone] Not a Sarrusophone, but still neat

>At 01:08 AM 6/2/01 +0000, Steve Weinert wrote:
> >A Sub-Contrabass Flute!!
> >
> >http://www.gwr.org/flutes/articles/double-contra.htm
> >
> >(At least I though it neat!)
>
> I did too. I'm left wondering how tall this girl is, and whether she
>got a sound out of the thing.
> Grant, did you pass this on to your contrabass fans? :-]

Hi Bob,

Actually, I didn't, because they saw the same picture last Fall (see
http://www.tubastuff.com/dcflute.html and
http://www.contrabass.com/2000/2000-08-28.html). See what one misses
by skipping the contrabass list? ;-)

The real news is that there is a contrabass flute for about US$2K:
see http://www.gwr.org/flutes/articles/c-b-f-1.htm

Enjoy!

Grant

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A Sub-Contrabass Flute!! http://www.gwr.org/flutes/articles/double-contra.htm (At least I though it neat!)...	Steve Weinert srw@...	Jun 2, 2001 1:08 am
... I did too. I'm left wondering how tall this girl is, and whether she got a sound out of the thing. Grant, did you pass this on to your contrabass fans?...	Bob Greenwade bob.greenwade@...	Jun 5, 2001 4:29 pm
... Hi Bob, Actually, I didn't, because they saw the same picture last Fall (see http://www.tubastuff.com/dcflute.html and ...	Grant Green gdgreen@...	Jun 5, 2001 5:29 pm
... <http://www.contrabass.com/2000/2000-08-28.html).> Well, in a way you actually did, then; you just did it before it showed up here. :-] ... You're going...	Bob Greenwade bob.greenwade@...	Jun 6, 2001 4:32 pm
... I think that Eva Kingma may still be making contrabasses, although US$12K sounds more like the price of her open-hole bass flute. Definitely not a PVC horn...	Grant Green gdgreen@...	Jun 6, 2001 6:54 pm
Speaking of interesting (even though non-sarrusophone) rarities, it appears that Heckel may revive the piccolo heckelphone for a short run. The following...	Grant Green gdgreen@...	Jun 6, 2001 11:54 pm