> You're going to make a grown man cry, Grant. I gotta get those
>sweepstakes entries in....
> BTW (and yes, this is off topic, but I'm the list owner so I can
>digress if I want to, nyah nyah): I noticed that the price of $2000 is
>given as "around one sixth of it's [sic] nearest competitor." That would
>be around 12 grand, but Kotato & Fukushima charges (the last I heard) more
>like $35K for their contrabass. Who else makes them?

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 ;-) If I remember correctly, the Kotato
*double* contrabass was around US$28K, and the contrabass was
somewhere in the $14-20K range. I know that Chris McKenna is also
experimenting with PCV contrabass flutes, and is also shooting for
the US$2K range, but haven't heard what his current progress is.

Grant

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